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4/3/1920	The Asheville Stamp Club of Asheville, N.C., has been recently organized with eleven members. Prospects are most promising and indications point to a club of not fewer than twenty members, all live wires.	Mekeels
11/17/1929	STAMP CLUB HAS FINE DISPLAYS Thousands Of Dollars Worth Exhibited At Hotel In City The Asheville stamp club held an exhibit at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel on Monday November 4. Included in the displays were decorated covers, old and new stamps from Abyassinia to Zanzibar, and United States revenues. There was a special policeman on duty to guard against the possible misplacement or theft of stamps. The stamps were mounted on cardboard sheets which in turn were mounted on framed sheets of beaver board To prevent the soiling of the varieties each exhibit was covered with glassine paper Durand Has Exhibit Among the exhibits was one by John Durand, a former student in the Asheville senior high school, now registered in George Washington university in the capital city, and one by John Wilmont, a promising young stamp collector and student of Ashevllle high school. The Wilmot collection showed scenes with stamps as illustrations of types of travel and transportation from the days of Roman gallery to the modern airplane. John Barber, president of the junior section, had a collection simular to John Wilmot’s. It was made up of different scenes with a background of mountains. Stamps in this entry were issued in Algeria down to Venezuela. There were more than two hundred airmail covers shown. Among them were Zeppelins, Lindberghs, and most main events of the latter years pictured by cachets stamped on the envelopes. Burham S Colburn, a resident of Biltmore Forest and an extensive collector of US issues, bought a selction of his looseleaf album and had the sheets mounted directly on the beaver board. The exhibit was estimated to be worth between nine and ten thousand dollars. Serves Refreshments Mrs Stanley H. Wright, wife of the president of teh senior stamp collectors had charge of teh refreshments table where tea, coffee, and cakes were served from 3:00 oclock when the exhibition began, until 6:00 oclock. No prizes were offered, as the object of the exihibit was to show stamp collectors what other stamp collectors had. It was not a contest. It was estimated that between three and four hundred people visited the exhibition at different times. Though it was the first of its kind ever held in Western North Carolina it was very successful. The exhibition took the place of the regular monthly meeting of the club.	Asheville Citizen Times

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12/19/1930	Stamp Club to Offer Exhibit: Interesting Collection will be shown January 16-17. Postal exhibits from virtually every country and colony on the globe, and other pieces of rare interest will be on exhibit at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel Friday and Saturday, January 16-17, it was announced yesterday. The exhibit will be arranged and sponsored by the Asheville Stamp Club of which Frederick Q. Boyer is president. This will be the second show held by the club, the first one having been held several months ago. First and second prizes and certificates of award will be given for the best exhibits of each of the following classifications: A specialized collection, general collection, collection of philosophical interest, collection of philatelic historical interest, collection of airmail postage, collection of pre-cancelled stamps, collection of first flight covers, and arrangement of exhibit. All stamps exhibited must be the property of the exhibitor and must be turned over to the exhibit commitee at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel on or before noon January 16. An entranct of $1.00 for seniors and 50 cents for junior exhibitors will be charged, allowing the exhibitor to enter one or all classes. The commitee in chard of the exhibition is composed of Mrs. Latta Clement, Lester Baldwin and Stanley H. Wright. New officers of the club who were elected at the last meeting are F. Q. Boyer, president; Frank A. Barber, vice president; Lester Baldwin, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. G. Latta Clement, director.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/2/1932	Stamp Club To Hold Meet This Evening – A meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club will be held this evening at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel. There will be a number of talks by members on things which have happened of interest to philately during the past month. The public is invited to attend the meeting. Stanley H. Wright is president of the club and will preside. Dr. Paul Weist is vice-president and Frank A. Barber is secretary and treasurer.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/31/1933	STAMP FEATURE WILL BE GIVEN Philately For Shut-Ins To Be Broadcast On Station WWNC Philately for Shut-Ins will be a feature of the Friday afternoon broadcast schedule of station WWNC every two weeks. At 4:45 this afternoon, the first regular formal meeting of the radio branch of The Asheville Stamp club will be on the air. This radio branch club Is composed of people interested in stamp collecting who are cither shut-Ins or people living outside of Asheville, and who are so removed as to be unable to come to the regular meetings of the Asheville Stamp club. 17 Charter Members During the past month and a half. seventeen charter members have been secured as the result of the “organization meetings” that have been conducted every two weeks at that hour. Now that this quota has been reached, election of officers will be in order a the meeting this afternoon, and It is expected that a president, vice president and exchange committee will be selected from the charter mem- E. L. Bayne, active secretary, of the radio branch, will officiate during the broadcast today, and one of the outstanding feaures of the program will bo a message to those listening, delivered by Frank A. Barber, president of the present organization. the Asheville Stamp club. Shepherd Given Credit Credit for the formation of this radio stamp organization is given to A. O. Shopherd, director of WWNC and a member of he A.S.C., for It was he who first put the Idea before members of the established club. As Mr. Shepherd pointed out, his now activity will permit shut-Ins to reap a greater benefit from their Collecting activities, and will stimulate this hobby among those who otherwise would not have con- , tact with other interested persons in this section.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/26/1933	Stamp Club Will Hold Meeting on June 7: The Asheville Stamp club, which for three years has held on of the largest stamp shows in the south, will hold another exhibition this year. It was learned yesterday. Details for the event will be arranged and announced later. The last three shows which attracted many valuable collections, worth many of thousands of dollars, have been held at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel. It is expected that the 1933 show will be held there also. The club will hold its next meeting Wednesday night, June 7, at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/4/1933	8 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club meets, Asheville-Biltmore Hotel.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/2/1935	Asheville Stamp Club To Hold Meet Today – Members of the Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 8 o’clock this evening at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel, the monthly meeting date having been changed from the first Wednesday to the first Tuesday evening in each monty. G.O. Shepherd, president of the club, will preside. In addition to the regular business of the club, there will be an auction sale of more that 60 itesm. All members and others interested have been invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/12/1937	Post Office to Cease Making Bonus Payments – Veterans’ bonus payments will not be made at post offices after Friday, it was revealed yesterday by Wythe M. Peyton, Asheville postmaster. Instructions to this effect have been received from Washington, he said. Postmasters will continue to certify the certificates as to the identity of the veterans, Mr. Peyton stated, but they will forward the certificates to a federal reserve bank, from which the checks will be mailed. At the close of business yesterday, $9,040,700 had been paid verterans through the Asheville Post Office.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/27/1937	Society Will Be Honored By Special Stamp – Will Be Issued During the National Convention Of Group Here – The post office department will honor the 43rd national convention of the Society of Philatelic Americans, to be held here in August, with a special stamp, it was learned yesterday by members of the Asheville Stamp Club. On the borders of the special stamp will be printed “In compliment to the 43rd national convention of the Society of Philatelic Americans, Asheville, N.C., August 26, 27, 28.” The center of the special stamp will carry a design of a stamp now in print. G.O. Shepherd, president of the Asheville Stamp Club, said his organization will recommend the placing of the 10-cent Great Smoky Mountains National park stamp in the center of the special issue. Between 100,000 and 150,000 of the special stamps will be sent to all parts of the world in response to requests of stamp collectors and Asheville will receive much publicity by this fact alone, it was pointed out. Wythe M. Peyton, Asheville postmaster, has been authorized to establish a branch post office in the Battery Park hotel for the duration of the convention, Mr. Shepherd announced. Many collectors from all over the world will order first-day covers carrying the Asheville stamp postmarked from the Battery Park post office the opening day of the convention, he said.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/22/1937	Souvenir Stamps Placed On First Day Covers Asheville post office employees are seen here affixing to envelopes copies of the national park souvenir stamp issued in compliment to the convention here this week of the Society of Philatelic Americans. Eleven employes have been working overtime for several nights putting the stamps on covers sent here from all parts of the world. This picture was taken Friday night, and yesterday Postmaster Wythe M. Peyton found it necessary to add three more workers to the overtime force, which will work today to keep up with the orders. After all covers are stamped, they will be cancelled and dispatched from Asheville Thursday, first day of the philatelic convention. Postal employees seen in the picture are: Front row, left to right, Miss Verda McIntire, Fred C. Springer and Richard Wolf. Second row, W H. Gaddis and James A Duncan. Third row, Paul T Lominac, Walter Peyton and Will Webster Back row, O. N. Norman, G. M. Roberts and Louis B. Ballard. Standing, Postmaster Peyton (left) and George M. Foster, assistant postmaster.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/27/1937	JUNIOR STAMP CLUB WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED Winning entries in the semi-annual stamp exhibit of the Asheville Junior Stamp club, which opened yesterday afternoon in the art room of the city hall, were selected yesterday. Prizes will be awarded this afternoon at 3 o’clock. The winning entries were as follows: Covers. Manuel Robinson, first prize. George Lamprinakos, second. United States stamps, Sammy Rosen, first prize; Curt Pfalzgraf. Novelties: Albert Jacobson, first prize; Miss Josephine Hamilton, second. Trave: Albert Jacobson, first prize; Manuel Robinson, second. Prizes will be donated by the Asheville Stamp club Frank Barber and James L. Steele, of Candler, both members of the senior club, acted as judges. The exhibit will remain open through Sunday. Hours today and Sunday are 2 until 5 o’clock.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/9/1938	Shock Delivers Talk At Meeting Of Stamp Club – S. H. Shock was the pricipal speaker at the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club held last night at the S. and W. Cafeteria. He discussed the universal postal congress souvenir album using one of the 125 albums in existance to illustrate his lecture. The album shown is the property of Junius Radeker. They were given out at the universal postal congress in 1897. A packet of stamps was distributed to all “beginners” at the meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/20/1938	Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club met yesterday afternoon at the Asheville-Biltmore Hotel with Albert Jacobson presiding.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/11/1938	Stamp Club to Hear Miss Baker – Stamps of Saar Region to be displayed at Meeting. Miss Corinth Baker, who specialized in stamps of the Saar before its merger with Germany, will be the principal speaker at a dinner meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7:15 o’clock Tuesday evening at the S & W Cafeteria. Miss Baker is said to have every stamp issued in the Saar mounted in an attractive frame. She will exhibit them at the meeting. There will be an auction sale of unused United States stamps, mostly in commemorative blocks of four, in which most of the 300 Asheville stamp collectors are interested. An attractive set of poster stamps featuring Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be presented by the program committee to everyone attending. Another feature will be a 10 minute instruction program to beginners, under the direction of G.O. Shepherd. All persons interested in stamps are invited to attend. The regular program will follow the dinner and will begin at 8 o’clock.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/13/1938	Asheville Stamp Club Hears Talk By Miss Baker – Miss Corinth Baker, Asheville philatelist, spoke on stamps of the Saar region at a dinner meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at the S. and W. Cafeteria here last night. A feature of the program was an exhibit including every stamp issued in the country before its merger with Germany. R. P. Simmons conducted a brief instruction program for beginner collectors, andposter stamps of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs were distributed to those attending the meeting. A number of commerative blocks of unused United State Stamps were disposed of at an auction held in connection of the meeting. Frank Barber explained the difference between stamps made by the engraving and photographic methods.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/11/1938	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tonight – The Asheville Stamp club will meet at the S and W Cafeteria at 8 o’clock tonight. Dr. Charles Hursh will be the principal speaker. A number of out-of-town collectors are expected to attend the meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/14/1939	Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 8 o’clock tonight at the S. and W. Cafeteria. A general trading forum will be held.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/10/1939	Stamp Movie Shown – “Travels of a Postage Stamp”, a film recently released by the Post Office Department were shown at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at the S. and W. Cafeteria last night. A number of visitors were present.	Asheville Citizen Times

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1/9/1940	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tonight – Asheville Stamp Club will hold its January meeting in the chamber of commerce assembly room in the Arcade building tonight at 8 o’clock.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/9/1940	Stamp Club To Hold Auction, Quiz Tonight – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the S. and W. Cafeteria. A business session will begin at 8 p.m. A short auction and a quiz on stamps of Great Britain, Canada, Newfoundland and Australia will be held. The club will hold an exhibition May 5 in connection with the 100th anniversary of the issuance of the first postage stamp.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/9/1940	Another household name will entered on the books here today when enumerators meet Postmaster General James A. Farley when he gets off a train at Biltmore en route to Canton, where he will dedicate the new post office. Members of Mr. Farley’s party, including two assistant postmasters general, also will be tabulated.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/28/1940	Stamp Club will Hold Exhibit at City Hall – The Asheville Stamp Club will sponsor a stamp exhibit at the city hall next Saturday and Sunday. Any collector may exhibit his collection and no admission charge or entry fee will be made. The exhibit is being planned as a part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the issuance of the first United States postal stamp.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/5/1940	Stamp Club To Have Exhibit At City Hall – The Asheville Stamp Club will conduct an exhibit of stamps all this week in the art guild room of the city hall in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the development of the postage stamp. The exhibit will be open today from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and each week-day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. At 8 o’clock tonight, members of the Asheville Stamp Club will hold a regular meeting in the city hall and at the time will listen to a radio broadcast by President Roosevelt in connection with the opening of the celebration. The public has been invited to inspect the display and alos to attend the meeting tonight. Club officers have announced that some very fine collections are to be seen at the exhibit.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/9/1940	Asheville Stamp Club Will Select Officers – Election of officers for 1940 will feature a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7:30 o’clock tonight at the S. and W. Cafeteria. An auction sale of stamps will be held following the election.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/6/1940	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tuesday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, at the S. and W. Cafeteria. An auction will be held.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/14/1941	Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet tonight at 8 o’clock at the S. and W. Cafeteria.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/15/1941	Stamp Club Elects Fell As President – M. K. Fell was elected president of the Asheville Stamp Club at a meeting at the S. and W. Cafeteria last night. Other officers named were: H. C. Beumer, vice-president, and S. H. Shock, secretary-treasurer. The following directors were elected: S. E. Beck, Frank Barber, J. L. Brown, Reed Kitchin, Dr. George F. Baier, Jr., Mrs. Sallie Frei and Phillip B. Hall.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/17/1941	10 years ago today: The second exhibit of postage stamps in the history of Asheville opened at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel under the auspices and management of the Asheville Stamp Club. Included in the elaborate display of stamps from all corners of the globe are parts of collections owned by Burnham S. Colburn, Frank A. Barber and other collectors.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/11/1941	Beumer To Speak At Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will hear a talk by H.C. Beumer at a supper meeting tonight at 7 o’clock. Mr. Beumer’s subject will be “Meter Slogans and Cancellations.” Supper will be served at the S. and W. Cafeteria at 7 p.m. M.K. Fell, club president, will preside. The public is invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/11/1941	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tonight – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet tonight at the S. and W. Cafeteria. Dinner will served at 7 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 8. R. Stanford Webb will speak on the subject, “Carrier and Local Stamps.” S. H. Shock will discuss “Stamps of Lundy Isle,” and an auction and exchange will follow.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/6/1941	Prize Winning Stamps To Be Exhibited Here – The stamp collection of James W. Shaver of Logansport, Ind., one of the nation’s outstanding collectors, will be exhibited at the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club Tuesday night at 8 o’clock at the S. and W. cafeteria. The collection has won several prizes in the United States and includes a complete group of postages from Danzig. The public is invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/8/1941	Stamp Collection To Be Shown At Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at the S. and W. cafeteria at 8 o’clock tonight. One of the features of the program will be the showing of the Newfoundland collection of Edward Vining of St. Louis, president of the Society of Philatelic Americans. The collection was sent to Asheville through the courtesy fo the society of which the Asheville Club is a member. The usual stamp auction, conducted by Dr. George Baier, will be held.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/12/1941	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tonight – The Asheville Stamp club will meet tonight at 8 o’clock at the Enka clubhouse, club officials announced yesterday.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/9/1941	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tonight – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet on the roof garden of the George Vanderbilt Hotel at 7:30 o’clock tonight. A general discussion will be held for the benefit of beginners and each beginner will be given a free stamp packet. A stamp auction will also be held.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/12/1942	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tuesday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, at the S. and W. Cafeteria. Following a short program, an auction will be held.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/10/1942	Auction Will Feature Stamp Club Meeting – A stamp auction to which the public is invited will feature the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club on Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock at the S. and W. Cafeteria.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/10/1942	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tonight – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the S. and W. Cafeteria. Harry Beumer president, will provide. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/8/1942	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tonight – The Asheville Stamp club will hear an illustrated lecture on United States Commemorative stamps at the meeting of the group at 7:30 o’clock tonight at the S. and W. Cafeteria.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/14/1942	HARRY BEUMER FUNERAL RITES SET FOR TODAY Services Will Be Held At Dunn And Groce Chapel At 2:30 The funeral of Harry Cornelius Beumer, 46, who died Saturday night at his home at 4 Crescent Street, Enka, will be held at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon at the Dunn and Groce funeral chapel. The Rev. Arthur W. Farnum, rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal church, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. J. T. Biddle, pastor of the Enka Baptist church. Burial will be in Green Hills cemetery. Mr. Beumer was librarian and Dutch school teacher at the American Enka corporation, with which company he had been associated for the past 13 years. He was president of the Asheville Stamp club at the time of his death. Mr. Beumer was a native of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Active pallbearers will be F. L. Conder, J. C. F. Gorter. Dr. W. J. D. van Dobbenburgh, D. Slikker J. C. Auer and S. Mann. Honorary pallbearers: Dr. Walter Johnson, Dr. William S. Justice. Dr. A. J. L. Moritz. Dr. J. J. Polak, C. Vanderhooven, J. R. Gill, J. J. Schilthuis, P. P. Kriek, J. D. W Hubbeling, J. Heykoop. H. S. Pos. J. Kemps, A. G. Bouhuys. L. A. Moritz. J. A. Houtman, P. Van-scherpenzeel. G. Spaanbroek, J. Kroes, G. Vanderkaaden, J. Schoonderwoerd, J. B. Verschuyl, Dr. G. I. Thurmond and Dr. George F Baier, Jr. Surviving are the widow; one son, Cecil Cornelius Beumer of Enka: his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hendrik C. Beumer of The Netherlands: two sisters, Mrs. J. Duenker and Miss Hendreka Beumer of the Netherlands.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/15/1942	Funeral Rites Conducted For Harry Beumer Funeral services for Harry Cornelius Beumer, 46, who died at his home at 4 Crescent Street, Enka, Saturday afternoon were held at the Dunn and Groce funeral chapel yesterday afternoon, with the Rev. Arthur W. Farnum, rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal church, assisted by the Rev. J. T. Biddle, pastor of the Enka Baptist church, officiating. Burial was in Green Hills cemetery. A native of Amsterdam, Mr. Beumer was librarian and Dutch school teacher at the American Enka corporation. He had been associated with the company for 13 years and was president of the Asheville Stamp club at the time of his death. Surviving are his widow; one son, Cecil Cornelius Beumer of Enka: his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hendrik C. Beumer of The Netherlands: two sisters, Mrs. J. Duenker and Miss Hendreka Beumer of the Netherlands. Active pallbearers were F. L. Conder, J. C. F. Gorter. Dr. W. J. D. van Dobbenburgh, D. Slikker J. C. Auer and S. Mann. Honorary pallbearers: Dr. Walter Johnson, Dr. William S. Justice. Dr. A. J. L. Moritz. Dr. J. J. Polak, C. Vanderhooven, J. R. Gill, J. J. Schilthuis, P. P. Kriek, J. D. W Hubbeling, J. Heykoop. H. S. Pos. J. Kemps, A. G. Bouhuys. L. A. Moritz. J. A. Houtman, P. Van-scherpenzeel. G. Spaanbroek, J. Kroes, G. Vanderkaaden, J. Schoonderwoerd, J. B. Verschuyl, Dr. G. I. Thurmond and Dr. George F Baier, Jr.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/10/1943	Asheville Stamp Club Will Elect Officers – Election of officers and the showing of U.S. commeratives will be highlights of the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the S. and W. Cafeteria. The slides are sent from the National Federation of Stamp Clubs, and the projector is furnished and operated by Mr. and Mrs. Latta Clement. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/13/1943	J. L. Brown Is Named Head Of Stamp Club – J. L. Brown was elected president of the Asheville Stamp Club at a meeting last night at the S. and W. Cafeteria. Nat Friedman was chosen vice president and S. H. Shock, secretary-treasurer. The club voted to put on a philatelic play on February 8 at the S. and W. Cafeteria. The play will deal with the humorous side of stamp collecting. The cast will be composed of the Druitt Studio of Speech.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/7/1943	Play To Be Feature of Stamp Club Meeting – A humorous play about stamp collectors presented by the Druitt Studio of Speech, and an illustrated lecture. “The Penny Black”, will feature the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the S. and W. Cafeteria. “Philtel-mania” is the title of the play which is directed by Nadine Massey, assistant director of the Druitt studio. The cast includes Hazel Phillips, Tillie Bassett, Hattie Davis, S. H. Shook, Alphones Muruzak and Miss Massey. If time permits, there will be an auction, it was stated.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/7/1943	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tuesday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the S. and W. Cafeteria. Another set of lantern slides shown U.S. double transfers, cracked plates and other errors will be presented. There also will be an auction sale.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/11/1943	Asheville Stamp Club Will Meet Tonight – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the S. and W. Cafeteria. The meeting will feature and auction and the display of stamps for sale or trade. Members are invited to bring friends. Visitors are welcome.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/10/1943	Stam Club To Meet AT Grove Park Inn Tuesday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at Grove Park Inn Tuesday at 8 p.m. An auction wil be held.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/9/1943	Stamp Club To Meet – The November meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club will be held tonight at 7:30 o’clock at S. and W. Cafeteria.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/6/1944	10 Years Ago Today – A junior stamp club for Asheville boys and girls will be organized this evening under the sponsorship of the Asheville Stamp Club, with Frederick Severence as adviser.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/9/1944	Stamp Club To Elect Directors Tuesday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at S. and W. Cafeteria. A new board of directors will be elected. Another in a series of “Stamp Quiz” programs and an auction will be held.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/11/1944	Stamp Club To Elect New Directors Tonight – The Asheville Stamp Club will elect a board of directors at the meeting of the club tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the S. and W. Cafeteria. A quiz program and an auction will be held.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/8/1944	Asheville Stamp Club To Hold Meet Tonight – A quiz program and an auction of stamps will feature the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club tonight at 7:30 o’clock at S. and W. Cafeteria. Nat Friedman, president of the club, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/10/1944	Directors To Meet – A directors’ meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club will be held Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the home of Nat Friedman, president.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/6/1944	Stamp Club To Meet Tuesday In Enka Clubhouse – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its August meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Enka clubhouse, it has been announced by President Nat Friedman. The club will welcom guests, whether residents or visitors to Western North Carolina. Visitors and members alike are invited to bring collections for exhibit and all philatelic material they may care to offer during the regular auction period. Those planning to attend are requested to assemble at 15 Broadway at 7 p.m. Tuesday, in order that those driving may take those without transportation to and from the meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/15/1944	Stamp Club Meets – Members of the Asheville Stamp Club held their November meeting last evening in S. and W. Cafeteria. The group discussed the new 13-cent and 17-cent special delivery and three-cent motion picture stamps. The regular stamp auction was held following the business meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/8/1945	Stamp Club to Meet – The January meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club will be held at the S and W Cafeteria tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock, Nat Friedman, president, has announced. The annual nomination and election of officers will take place and the montly auction will be held following the business meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/11/1945	Stamp Club Will Hold Monthly Meet Tuesday – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its monthly meeting in S. and W. cafeteria Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The featured speaker will be Gustave Lichtenfels, who will exhibit his collection of 19th and 20th Century U.S. blocks of four and some of his specimens of outstanding coins of the early United States. A brief business meeting and the regular philatelic auction also will be held. All stamp collectors are invited to attend as guests of the club.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/14/1945	Coin Collection Shown At Meeting Of Club – Gustav Lichtenfels exhibited a collection of early United States coins and 19th and 20th century U. S. stamps at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club last evening in S. and W. Cafeteria. Samuel E. Beck served as program chairman and Nat Friedman, president, presided.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/9/1945	Asheville Stamp Club To Name New President – A new president will be elected at a meeting of the board of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7:30 o’clock this evening in S. and W. Cafeteria. All members of the club have been invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/6/1945	Stamp Club To Meet – Members of the Asheville Stamp Club will hold a stamp auction at a meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in S and W. cafeteria.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/8/1945	Stamp Club Scheduled To Hold Meet at Enka – Several visiting Florida dealers are expected to attend and discuss stamp topics of interest at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at the Enka Lake club house Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. Nat Friedman, president, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/10/1945	Stamp Club Meets – The regular stamp auction and exhibition featured a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club last evening at the home of Mrs. R. W. Johnson, Haw Creek. Business reports heard.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/11/1945	Stamp Club Plans Monthly Meeting Tuesday Evening – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the S. and W. Cafeteria. Club President Nat Friedman has announced that Warren W. Scholl, well-known New York philatelist now visiting in this area, has been invited to speak on current trends and future investment values of mint U.S. stamps. A brief business session will be held. The regular auction of duplicate stamps will conclude the meeting. Visitors and those interested in stamps who are non-members are invited to attend as guest of the club.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/14/1945	Scholl Is Speaker At Stamp Club – Warren W. Scholl, philatelist from New York City, spoke on “Present Values and Speculation in Stamps versus Collecting” at the montly meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club held last night in S. and W. Cafeteria. Nat Friedman, president of the club, presided. The regular auction of duplicate stamps was held, and visitors included: Elmer Berry of Boston, Howard Hayes of Asheville and Don Stevens of Candler.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/6/1946	Asheville Stamp Club To Elect New Officers – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its January meeting in S. and W. Cafeteria Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Election of officers, postponed from the previous meeting because of the holidays, will be used. Exhibits and the regular stamp auction will be held following the business session. Visitors and non-members who collect stamps are invited to attend. Retiring President Nat Friedman will officiate at the election and conduct the auction.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/11/1946	New Officers, Directors Named By Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club has appointed nine new members to its board of directors and the board has named two officers for the coming year, it was announced last night. New members of the board are S. E. Beck, W. F. Castiel, M. F. Cipar, Mrs. R. W. Johnson, W. F. Krickhan, H. Rosendahl, S. H. Shock, C. W. Stephen, C. F. Stoneciper, and Nat Friedman, retiring president. S. E. Beck was appointed president and M. F. Cipar was named secetary-treasurer. The club meets every second Tuesday in S. and W. Cafeteria. The next meeting will be held May 7 at 7:30 p.m.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/12/1946	Curt Pfaizgraf was winner of the grand prize in the exhibit of the Asheville Junior Stamp club which is being shown in the art guild room of the city hall.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/10/1946	Colburn to Talk at Stamp Club Meeting Tuesday – Burnham S. Colburn, president of the First National Bank and Trust Company and prominent philatelist, will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club to be held in S. and W. Cafeteria at 7:30 o’clock tomorrow night. Mr. Colburn, a charter member of the club when it was organized 18 years ago and now an honorary member, will exhibit a volume of rare Canadian revenue stamps in sheets which comprise the bill stamps or first three issues of the federal stamps of Canada. Samuel E. Beck, president of the club, will preside at the meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/11/1946	Stamp Club To Hear B.S. Colburn Tonight – Burnham S. Colburn, president of the First National Bank and Trust Company, will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club, in celebration of the 18th anniversary of its founding, to be held in S. and W. Cafeteria tonight at 8 o’clock. Mr. Colburn was a charter member of the club and is now an honorary member. An auction sale of stamps will be held. Philatelists visiting in the area are invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/7/1946	Tennessean Will Be Heard By Stamp Club – A.C. Delpeuch, secretary of the Knoxville, Tenn. stamp club, will be guest speaker during a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock in the S and W Cafeteria. Mr. Delpeuch, a collector of French stamps, attended the 43rd annual convention of the Society of Philatelic Americans held here in 1937. W. C. Henry of the Knoxville club, a collector of United States stamps, will also speak. Samuel E. Beck, club president, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/15/1946	STAMP EXHIBIT IS BEING HELD Club Sponsoring Display In Window Of Store On Patton Avenue An exhibit of rare United States and foreign stamps Is on display ! this week through Sunday in the window of the Man Store. 22 Patton avenue, under sponsorship of the Asheville Stamp club. Among objects in the exhibit is a frame belonging to Miss Fannie Lee Cooke, of Candler, including stamps from 1847 through 1869 and also the first two stamps issued by the United States government almost 100 years ago. Set of Columbian Issue Gustav Llcbtenfels is showing one frame which includes a complete set of the Columbian issue from one cent to five dollars. The various stamps in this issue portray scenes In connection with Colurnbus discovery of America. A complete set of stamps commemorating the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elisabeth Is being shown by Gerald Medd, of Aiden. He is also showing a complete set of the silver jubilee issue of King George V. Charles Millard, of Asheville, is exhibiting a frame with stamps representing the presidents of the United States. Stamps issued by the United States in honor of ail the down trodden nations of the world, In addition to semi-postal stamps of Switzerland and Italian colonies are being shown by Hugo Rosendahl. First Day Covers. In compliment to the various branches of the armed services of the United States, are being displayed by Mel Cipar. A number of covers taken from the ruins of Manila by Douglas Allison, which represent the three governments that have recently ruled the Philippines, Including the new republic since the liberation, are being shown in the display by Mr. Allison. Samuel E. Beck is president of the Asheville Stamp club and Melvin F. Cipar is secretary-treasurer. Meetings of the club, which was organized In 1928, are held in S. and W. Cafeteria at 7:30 p. m. every second Tuesday in the month.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/10/1947	News of Other Days – 10 Years Ago Today – The various processes used in the manufacture of stamps was described last night by Bob Mackelfresh in a talk at the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at the Asheville-Biltmore Stamp Club.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/21/1947	10 Years Ago Today – The Asheville Junior Stamp Club met Saturday at the Asheville-Biltmore hotel with the president Albert Jacobson presiding. J.L. Steele spoke on several phase of stamp collecting.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/8/1947	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club to meet in S. and W. Cafeteria.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/8/1947	Asheville Stamp Club Will See Exhibit Tonight – J. W. Palmer of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., will exhibit a portion of his stamp collection at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7:30 o’clock this evening in S. and W. Cafeteria. The Palmer exhibit will include U.S. air mail stamps in blocks of four with position plate numbers. Douglas Allison, president, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/22/1947	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club to meet in S. and W. Cafeteria.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/22/1947	??	Asheville Citizen Times
12/14/1947	10 Years Ago Today – Frank A. Barber will speak at the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club to be held tonight in S and W Cafeteria.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/28/1947	10 Years Ago Today – Sam E. Beck was named president of the Asheville Stamp Club at a meeting of the board of directors.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/7/1948	Today in Asheville – 7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
1/9/1949	Stamp Club To Meet Tuesday Evening – H. E. Wheeler, director of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian at Cherokee, will speak at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in S and W Cafeteria. His subject will be “Ways in Which Stamps Protect Themselves.” Wheeler’s talk will be illustrated with a display of stamps. He will be introduced by Samuel E. Beck, president. Officers and a board of directors will be elected.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/12/1949	Stamp Club Members Hear Dr. Wheeler – Dr. H. E. Wheeler, director of the Cherokee Indian Museum at Cherokee, spoke on stamps at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club held last night in S and W Cafeteria. Dr. Wheeler said that stamp collectors should collect stamps for their beauty as well as for their historical and educational value. He also recommended collectors mount their stamps on hand-drawn pages. Dr. Wheeler exhibited several collections of his stamps and described the work done on his hand-drawn mounted stamp holders. Samuel Beck, president, presided and introduced the speaker.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/6/1949	Asheville Stamp Club To Name New Officers – Election of officers will be held at the regular monthly meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the George Vanderbilt Hotel. Samuel E. Beck, president, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/8/1949	Beck Elected As President of Stamp Club – Samuel E. Beck was elected president of the Asheville Stamp Club at a meeting of the group in Langren Hotel last night. Other officers elected are Col O. M. Hewitt, vice president, and Hanson C. Miller, secretary-treasurer. The following were elected to the board of directors: Douglas Allison, E. H. Berry, W. F. Castell, Nat Friedman, Col. Hewitt, Mrs. R. W. Johnson, Samuel H. Schock, Dr. John Stevens, Dr. P.R. Terry, H.C. Miller and Beck. The following commitees were appointed: Auctioneer, Freidman; membership, Miller, Castell and Allison; entertainment, Dr. Terry, Dr. Stevens and Schock. Seven new members were accepted.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/9/1949	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
7/11/1949	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
8/8/1949	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
10/10/1949	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
12/12/1949	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times

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1/9/1950	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
3/13/1950	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
4/10/1950	Today in Asheville – Schedule of study conference, Association for Childhood Education International, appears on page 1. 10 a.m. – 15thy annual all-breed dog show, Carolina Pavilion. 1 p.m. – Junior Chamber of Commerce, Battery Park Hotel. 3:15 p.m. – Biller Bros. Circus, Logan Show Grounds. 6 p.m. – Asheville Barbershop Quartet, Battery Park Hotel. 7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel. 8 p.m. – Biller Bros. Circus, Logan Show Grounds	Asheville Citizen Times
5/8/1950	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
6/12/1950	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
7/10/1950	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
3/12/1951	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
6/11/1951	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Langren Hotel	Asheville Citizen Times
3/16/1955	J. L. Brown Dies At 82 In Hospital – James Lydecker Brown, 82, of Asheville, formerly active in Masonic affairs and various organizations here, died Monday night in a Greensboro Hospital. He was a native of Englewood, N.J. and first came to Asheville in 1920 from New York City. Funeral services will be conducted in Ridgefield, N.J. this afternoon. Brown resided with Dr. Scott S. Fay of 94 Brevard Rd. He was a life member and a former secretary of John A. Nichols Lodge 650, AF and AM. He was secretary 23 years. Brown was a past president and life member of the Asheville Lions Club and was its secretary 11 years. He also was a past president and life member of the Asheville Stamp Club and a member of Asheville Elks Lodge, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Order of the Eastern Star. A number of cousins in the Lydecker family reside in Englewood, N.J. Brown was the last survivor in the Brown family.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/25/1959	Beck Elected As President of Stamp Club – Samuel E. Beck was elected president of the Asheville Stamp Club at a reorganizational meeting Monday night in the S and W Cafeteria. Carl Williamson was chosen vice president and Mrs. Shirley Jordan, secretary-treasurer. Purpose of the meeting was to reactivate the club, which became inactive about 1950. A nominations commitee report was presented by Professor Vernon E. Wood of Mars Hill College, chairman; George Egan and W. F. Casteel. Dr. E. L. Demmon was appointed chairman of a commitee to draft a new set of by-laws. Other members are Dr. Thomas H. Weaver and Ottis Green, Jr. The club voted to meet on the fourth Monday night of each month. A club for junior members will be organized later.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/27/1959	Stamp Collectors Will Hear Jordan – Dan Jordan, purchasing agent and production manager for International Resistance Co., will talk on “Mint Stamps vs. Used Stamps” at a meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in S and W Cafeteria. All stamp collectors have been invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/27/1959	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
5/25/1959	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
6/22/1959	Stamp Club to Hear Dr. Vernon E. Wood – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the S and W Cafeteria. Dr. Vernon E. Wood of Mars Hill College will speak. All stamp collectors in the area have been invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/26/1959	O. C. Williams To Be Speaker For Stamp Club – O.C. Williams of the Soil Conservation Service, witll be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7 p.m. Monday in the Club Room of the S and W Cafeteria. He will give an illustrated lecture on soil conservation practices, part of a program of the Department of Soil Conservation to give wide publicity to the four cent Soil Conservation Stamp to be issued on Aug. 26. Williams will have on hand a supply of special cachet envelopes for any collectors show wish to prepare their own first day covers. All stamp collectors are invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/27/1959	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
11/23/1959	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
12/28/1959	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times

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1/24/1960	Stamp Club To Show Film – A movie about the St. Lawrence Seaway stamp will be shown at a meeting of Asheville Stamp Club at 7:30 p.m. Monday in S&W Cafeteria. Oscar DeLoach, a postal supervisor, will be in charge of the program. Asheville postmaster Mark Summer Sr. obtained the film from the Post Office Department. Samuel E. Beck, president, will preside at the meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/25/1960	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
2/23/1960	Dr. Weaver Heads Stamp Collectors – Dr. Thomas H. Weaver was elected president of the Asheville Stamp Club at the organization’s annual meeting Monday in the S and W Cafeteria. Dr. Weaver succeeds Samuel E. Beck, Miss Lena Humphries was reelected secretary-treasurer. The club approved a program plan for the coming year under which studies of various aspects of stamp	Asheville Citizen Times
3/28/1960	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
4/25/1960	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
6/27/1960	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
7/25/1960	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
8/21/1960	Dr. Smith To Talk To Stamp Club Here – Dr. Maxwell Smith of Asheville and Miami, Fla., will be guest speaker at monthly business meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7 p.m. Monday in S and W Cafeteria. Dr. Smith will give an illustrated lecture on “Natural History Depicted on Postage Stamps.” Dr. Thomas H. Weaver will preside at the business session.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/24/1960	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
11/28/1960	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
1/23/1961	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
2/7/1961	Image – Fortune Names To Membership In Pioneer Club – Robert G. Fortune, Jr., line superintendent for Carolina Power & Light Company’s Asheville district, has been named to membership in the company’s Pioneer Club. The honor comes upon completion of 25 years of service with the company. Fortune is a native of Asheville and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from N.C. State College. He joined CP&L in 1936, was promoted to junion engineer in 1937, division engineer in 1939 and division superintendent in 1947. Fortune is a deacon and Sunday School teacher at First Baptist Church of Asheville, is past master of Mount Hermon Masonic Lodge past president of the American Business Club of Asheville, past president of the Engineers Club of Western North Carolina, past president of the Asheville Stamp Club, and is president of the Board of United Social Services. Mrs. Fortune is the former Mildred Patterson of Greensboro.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/27/1961	James Heads Stamp Club – George A. James was elected president of the Asheville Stamp Club at a meeting of the group held Monday night at S & W Cafeteria. Other officers elected were Louis Blodgett, vice president; and French Casteel, secretary treasurer. Gary Flatow presented an illustrated lecture on US Migratory Duck Hunting stamps.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/24/1961	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
5/22/1961	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
6/26/1961	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
7/24/1961	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
8/27/1961	7:30 p.m – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
9/25/1961	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
10/23/1961	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
11/26/1961	Stamp Club Meets Monday – George F. Eagan will discuss U.S. Mint Plate Number Blocks of Four and will show his plate block collection at the 7 p.m. Monday monthly meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club in the club room of the S and W Cafeteria. Dr. E.L. Demmon, president, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/27/1961	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
1/22/1962	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
2/26/1962	Stamp Club to Hold Meeting Tonight – Gary Flatow of Asheville will speak at the montly meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club Monday at 7 p.m. in the S and W Cafeteria Clubroom. He will discuss U.S. migratory duck-hunting stamps. An election of officers will be held. Visitors are invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/26/1962	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
3/25/1962	Stamp Club To Meet – Loren D. Packer will display his collection of music stamps at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 8 p.m. Monday in the Pine Room of S and W Cafeteria. He also will be guest speaker. Persons interested in stamp collecting have been invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/26/1962	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
4/23/1962	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
4/29/1962	Stamp Club To Hear Beck – Samuel E. Beck, past president, will be guest speaker at the montly meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7 p.m. Monday in S and W Cafeteria. Beck will discuss postal problems of the Confererate States during the War Between the States. The regular meeting was not held April 23 because of the Easter weekend holiday. All visiting stamp collectors in the Asheville area are invited to attend. Dr. Jim James, president, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/30/1962	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, C and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
5/28/1962	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
7/22/1962	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in S. and W. Cafeteria. George A. James, president, has announced visitors will be welcome, James said.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/23/1962	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
8/27/1962	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
9/24/1962	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
10/22/1962	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
11/26/1962	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
1/27/1963	Asheville Stamp Club Will Hear Two Talks – Two talks concerning coins and currency will be featured at the 7 p.m. Monday meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club in S and W Cafeteria. Albert McLean will speak on “General Coin Collecting” and William Lloyd will discuss “Postal Currency.” Officers for the year will be elected during the business session.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/29/1963	Blodgett Heads Stamp Club Here – Louis Blodgett was elected president of the Asheville Stamp Club at a dinner meeting Monday night in S and W Cafeteria. Gary Flato was chosen vice president; and Miss Ann Dickerson of Black Mountain, secretary treasurer. Blodgett succeeds Jim James, who reviewed the club’s accomplishments during the past year. James reported that mounting frames had been procured for a club exhibit. Albert McLean discussed the proper steps for beginners, who should start with uncirculated stamps as they are issued each year.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/25/1963	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
3/25/1963	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
4/22/1963	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
5/27/1963	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
6/24/1963	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
7/22/1963	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
8/26/1963	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
9/22/1963	Stamp Club Cancels Meet – The September meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club, scheduled for Monday, has been cancelled. The October meeting will be held as usual.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/27/1963	Lloyd To Address Stamp Club Meeting – William L. Lloyd, past president of the Asheville Coin Club, will discuss counterfeit coins and stamps at an Asheville Stamp Club meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in S and W Cafeteria. Samuel E. Beck will discuss the Confederate Stamp Alliance Exposition which he attended in Newark, N. J., in September.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/28/1963	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
11/25/1963	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
12/23/1963	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
1/27/1964	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
3/22/1964	Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in Biltmore Dairy Bar.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/23/1964	7:00 p.m. – Biltmore Dairy Bar	Asheville Citizen Times
4/27/1964	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
5/25/1964	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
6/22/1964	7:00 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, S and W Cafeteria	Asheville Citizen Times
8/24/1964	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Biltmore Dairy Clubrooms	Asheville Citizen Times
9/28/1964	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Biltmore Dairy Clubrooms	Asheville Citizen Times
10/26/1964	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Biltmore Dairy Clubrooms	Asheville Citizen Times
11/23/1964	7:15 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Clug, Biltmore Dairy Clubrooms	Asheville Citizen Times
12/28/1964	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Biltmore Dairy Clubrooms	Asheville Citizen Times
2/22/1965	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, Biltmore Dairy Clubrooms	Asheville Citizen Times
10/11/1966	Sam Beck, Area Historian, Famed Collector, 67, Dies Samuel E. Beek, 67, noted historian of the mountain region and a retired businessman, died in a hospital here early Monday. He had been in declining health for several months. Mr. Beck, who lived at 625 Hendersonville Road, retired in 1957 as office manager and comptroller for Armour & Co., after 38 years with the company. He joined the firm here in 1919 as a stock clerk. In 1926, he was transferred to Lexington, Ky., as assistant cashier. He served with Armour as accountant and cashier in Bristol and Louisville before returning to | Asheville in 1928 as cashier. He had been here ever since. Long active in Western North Carolina historical affairs, Mr. I Beck founded the Museum of the ! Cherokee Indian in 1948 on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. | His collection of Cherokee ‘ ; items formed the museum’s nucleus. Mr. Beck had been a past president and trustee of the Western North Carolina Historical Association. He also was I former president and a trustee । of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial ‘Association. Known for having one of the area’s most extensive stamp collections, Mr. Beck was a past president of the Asheville Stamp Club, and a former regional vice president of the Society of Philatelic Americans. In addition to serving as a trustee of Cherokee Historical Association, he at one time had been vice president of the North Carolina Archeological Association. J. At the time of his death, he I was serving as executive vice , president of the newly – created r Museum of the Southern High-!| lands. p A biography of Mr. Beck was I published in 1956 in the History ! | of North Carolina. « For many years, he had been an active member of the Biltmore Lions Club, of which he was a past president. A native of Jackson County, he was a son of the late Joseph and Laura Snider Beck. He was a member of the official board of Biltmore Methodist Church. A veteran of World War I, he served 10 months in France as a member of the 30th Division of the U.S. Army. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Lena C. Beck; a step-daughter, Mrs. Gail Whitaker of Jackson, Miss.; a step-son, Lenoir B. ! Moore Jr. of Asheville; a broth-I er, Wade Beck of Cherokee; I three nephews, a niece and five 1 grandchildren. Services will be held at 2 p , m. Wednesday in the chapel ol ; Groce Funeral Home. I The Rev. R. Pascal Waugh . and the Rev. Milford Thumrr will officiate and burial will b( i in Green Hills Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Ernest M iHansel. W. C. Pearson, Floy* i Goff. Kenneth O’Barr, E. W Pitts and Isaac Lichtenfels Honorary pallbearers will bi members of Biltmore Lion Club, the official board of Bilt more Methodist Church, Chero kee Historical Association, West ern North Carolina Associatioi and Southern Highlands Mu seum.	Asheville Citizen Times

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5/3/1970	Stamps In The News United Nations Stamp Has ‘Cancer’ Theme By SYD KRONISH AP Writer Combatting cancer is a universal crusade. This all-out fight is noted by the United Nations in a new commemorative stamp to be issued on May 22. The theme of the stamp will be “Fight Cancer.” The U N Postal Administration announced that the date of issuance, May 22, coincides with the opening of the Tenth International Cancer Congress of the International Union Against Cancer which takes place in Houston, Texas, and will continue until May 29. It is estimated that approximately 8,000 volunteers will attend the Congress and that most countries of the world will be represented. The new commemorative will come in two denominations — 6 cents and 13 cents — with a common design. The 6 cents will be blue and black while the 13 cents will be green and black. Adding to the international touch, the designer was Leonard Mitchell of New Zealand and the printing was done in West Germany. Further details as to first day covers will be reported here soon. In these days of railroad strife, it is good to note that there is an air conditioned train in the hot Negev Desert running from Oron to Tzefa in Israel. The railway line is honored by Israel with a new stamp featuring a modern interpretative drawing of a camel standing in the desert and the train in the background. Originally this real line was used to haul freight but after the Six Day War it started to take passengers. The new stamp will be printed in multi-color in sheets of 15 stamps and 5 tabs, reports The Israel Philatelic Agency in America. The stamps will be available at your local dealer or stamp department. The 1970 edition of H. E. Harris loose-leaf album entitled “The Statesman” is now on the market. The album provides space for nearly 30,000 stamps of some 150 countries with identifying illustrations. The Statesman can be purchased for $6.95 directly from H. E. Harris & Co., Dept. SC, Boston, Mass., 02117. An enthusiastic group of 25 persons met in the Carolina Power and Light Company building Friday night to form an Asheville Stamp Club. A visitor from Washington, D. C. on the very first night helped contribute ideas on getting started. It was a typical cross section o f persons attracted to stamp collecting from the 10-year-o)d student to the retiree, both men and women. A committee was named to present a slate of officers at the next meeting to be held Friday, June 12. After this the meeting night will be on a Monday because a consensus of the group seemed to be that this would suit the most people. Dates will b e announced in ample time through this column. All persons interested will be considered charter members by attending the June meeting or notifying yours truly. Clayton Harmon, Temporary Chairman EDITOR’S NOTE – Clayton C. Harmon of Asheville, a longtime stamp collector, has agreed to represent t h e Citizen-Times as its stamp expert. Questions about the hobby, particularly on getting the right start, will be answered by mail provided a self-addresseed stamped envelope Is enclosed with your question. This will save time and will insure a positive and speedy reply. Mail year question to: Mr. Clayton C. Harmon P.O. Box 8012 Asheville, N. C. 28804	Asheville Citizen Times
8/16/1970	Asheville Stamp Club Plans Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Carolina Power and Light Company Building. A program on “How to Participate in a Stamp Auction” and a report on the recent stamp show and exhibition in Charlotte is planned. Gary Flatow, a member of the Asheville Stamp Club, earned a silver trophy in this show with an exhibit of Nesbitt envelopes. Plans will made for an exhibit in Asheville during National Stamp Collecting Week in November. A door prize will be given and all who are interested are invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/19/1970	Stamp Collectors Will Meet Tonight – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Carolina Power and Light Building. Harry Mosser will speak on “The Stamp Collectors’ World Oil”	Asheville Citizen Times
11/17/1970	Tuesday – 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club exhibit, main Post Office.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/18/1970	9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club exhibition, main Post Office	Asheville Citizen Times
12/1/1970	9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club exhibit, main Post Office	Asheville Citizen Times
12/20/1970	Stamps Disclose Nation’s History By SYD KRONISH AP Newsfeature Illustrations on postage stamps often reveal t he history of a nation. Sometimes, stamps can also serve as miniature museums to show the culture and way of life of people for future generations to see. Such a case is noted in a recent set of stamps from Papua and New Guinea. For centuries before the advent of the Europeans, the natives of these Islands worked with their hands, fashioning beautiful artifacts for their daily use. Now these items are disappearing as civilization is changing the customs of the populace. The new set of four stamps depicts four artifacts. The 5 cents shows a Wogeo Island Food Bowl. The 10 center has an elaborately engraved lime pot. The 15 cent stamp bears an Aibom Sago storage pot. The 30 cent features a rare Manus Island bowl. Only the Aibom Sago storage pot Is still being made in its original form. The set was designed by Australian artist Paul Jones and printed in four-color photogravure by Courvoisier of Switzerland, reports the Empire Stamp Galleries. The new items are available at your local stamp dealer or stamp department. Avid stamp collectors are continually searching for errors. In most cases their artistic delight is greater than their monetary rewards. However, both satisfactions — money and discovery — usually go hand in hand. A recent find was made by a collector from Hendersonville, N. C. who made his “discovery” sorting through a box of common stamps. The error was on the M cent U. S. stamp picturing James Monroe (Scott No. 562, Minkus No. 429) issued Jan. 15, 1923. Only a keen observer knowledgable about philatelic rarities would have found the error — an additional perforation. Instead of 10 perforations on two sides and 11 on the other two. this stamp had 11 on three sides and 10 on the fourth. Postmaster General Winton M. Blount will announce a series of four 1970 U. S. com-memoratives which will be based on natural history themes. This series of four will be printed on the same sheet, in the same fashion as the recent Botanical Congress series. Stamp collecting has been called the hobby of kings, the pastime of presidents and the relaxation of the rest of mankind. In other words, where rulers and rich potentates derive their pleasures from gathering large stamp collections, the average individual — even a young boy and girl — can have just as much fun in working up his own stamp material. You’re never too old to start! What: The Asheville Stamp Club Where: The Carolina Power & Light Co. Meeting room When: Monday December 21, 1970, 7:30 PM Why: To help stamp collectors know more about their hobby. At this meeting we will have an auction of surplus or duplicate stamps of the members. Also a session of swapping and trading. The more we study and meet to talk and discuss stamps, the more knowledgeable we become in the hobby and have greater appreciation of it. Who: The members of the Asheville Stamp Club and all persons are invited to come to the meeting who would like to know more about stamp collecting. Only members of the club will be permitted to offer items for the auction. CLAYTON HARMON, President	Asheville Citizen Times
12/20/1970	Duplicate	Asheville Citizen Times
1/10/1971	Stamp Club To Hear Talk By N.Y. Dealer – Stamp collectors in Western North Carolina will have a rare opportunity to meet and hear an experianced collector and dealer from New York. The Asheville Stamp Club will be host to John Fox, a 37-year veteran of stamp dealing, at its regular monthly meeting Monday Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m. in the Carolina Power and Light Co. Building. Fox will present a program on his special interest “Stamps of the Confederacy.” Anyone interested in the history of the South during this period will learn much from this opportunity to hear Fox share his knowledge. Members of the Asheville Stamp Club extend an invitation to all interested persons to attend this meeting which will be of special interest to students of the history of the South.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/17/1971	Stamp Club Meets Monday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet Monday in the Carolina Power & Light building at 7;30 p.m. Speaker John Fox of New York will present a program on “Stamps of the Confederacy.” Stamp collectors in the area are invited to attend the meeting. The historical nature of the event will be of interest to educators and collectors alike.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/14/1971	Stamps In The News Special Stamp Used By British Island By SYD KRONISH AP News Feature Did you ever hear of Stroma? Well, its a small island in the Pentland Firth near the Orkney Islands off the coast of Britain Stroma’ is a summer resort and maintains postal communications with the mainland via mail-boat. Although British postage stamps are used, special Stroma issues are being affixed to the back of the envelopes to help defray the expenses of the boat and the latest issues contains 2 stamps for EUROPA featuring a fish on one stamp and a dog on the other THE MAIL BAG. . . To Madelyn Ivanson of Stanton, Calif., the Project Mercury stamp you describe which is minus the words “U.S.” Postage” is an unusual error but enough of them were issued to cut the value. Check with your local dealer for price. . . To William B. Seltzer of Oelwein, Iowa, you can purchase your Isreal First Day Covers from the Israel Philatelic Agency in America, 116 W. 32nd Street, New York, N. Y. 10001. .. To Fred King of Columbus, Ohio, the U. S. and German stamps you describe do not appear to be valuable at all. However., to get a first hand appraisal you may wish to show them your local stamp dealer. The first in the planned series of postage stamps , commemorating the Bicentennial of the American Revolution will be issued July 4, according to Postmaster General Winton M. Blount. The announcement seemed to hint it would be a design relating to the Battle of Alamance in 1771. This battle was a dispute between eastern and western portions of the colony of North Carolina. Calling themselves the “Regulators,” it was the first organized resistance to what they felt was unjust taxation. About 200 were killed or wounded by troops under the Royal Governor William Tryon and the defeated crossing the mountains into the land which became Tennessee and Kentucky. The stamp wr/ld no doubt have a “first day” in Alamance County, North Carolina, a tribute to the opening battle for independence and our nation’s 200th birthday. A meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club will be held Monday March 15. 7:30 p.m. at the Carolina Power and Light Company. Loren Packer will have a program on “Music Stamps”. All interested persons are invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/18/1971	Stamp Club to Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet Monday in the Carolina Power & Light Company building at 7:30 p.m. John Foxworth, director of the American Philatelic Society will present a program on the recent meetings of the Society in New York. A door prize will be awarded, according to Clayton Harmon, club president.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/20/1971	Stamp Club Meets Monday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet Monday at 7: 30 p.m. at the Carolina Power & Light Company. Election of officers will be held. Leland Sawyer will be in charge of a “silent” auction. Door prizes will be given and a swap session will be held. Clayton Harmon, president, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/21/1971	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
6/27/1971	Souvenir Envelope To Be Given Away Free An enlarged view of the souvenir envelope which will be offered free, one to a customer without the stamp (and ad- dress) at all post offices on July 1. For the price of the 8c stamp and with a July 1 cancellation it becomes an historic, cacheted first day cover of the new U. S. Postal Service. Stamp Collecting EDITOR’S NOTE: The United States Postal Service, with an eye focused on operating in the black, is hoping its July 1st “Giveaway” will touch off new interest in the hobby of stamp collecting. For the first time in history this new semi-private government agency acknowledges the fact that stamp collecting is no penny-ante hobby. It has world-wide appeal and, many countries are in the stamp business catering to collectors at handsome profits. A stamp collection may be as expensive as you choose to make it. A collection of hundreds of used U. S. commemoratives is very impressive as well as educational and cost less than $10. The rare 19th century classics or errors sell for hundreds, even thousands of dollars. At a recent auction the 24c airmail invert of 1918 sold for $34,000. The highest price ever paid for a single stamp was $280,000 on March 24, 1970 for the British Guiana 1856 “one cent.” For most collectors, enjoyment is the chief reward, and profit is where you find it. Asheville Stamp Called a souvenir sheet, this special U. S. Postal issue put Asheville on the map of the philatelic world in August, 1937. Listed as number 797 in Scott’s stamp catalog, it is also listed in all others. Post Offices Plan Stamp Decor Display When the U. S. Postal Service comes into being Thursday, the lobbies of many of the nation’s post offices, including those in Asheville, •will be decorated for the occasion with new historic stamp posters. Copies will be sold for hanging in dens, recreation rooms and wherever else stamp collectors want to display these colorful enlargements of U.S. stamps, postmaster A. J. Garner, III announces. The 30 x 40 inch posters, printed in full color on good quality paper, are in four categories — space, history, transportation and environment. Cost per poster is $1.50 or four for $5, plus a handling charge of 50c. Posters may be ordered from Historic Stamp Posters, U. S. Postal Service, Washington, D. C. 20036. Stipulate type of poster desired. The posters will be shipped for crease-free hanging. Stamps reproduced are: Space—Dr. Robert H. Goddard, International Geophysical Year, Project Mercury, Communications for Peace, Space Twins, Apollo 8 and First Man on the Moon. Environment — Anti-Pollution (4) Yellowstone National Park, Whooping Cranes, John Muir, Wood Ducks, Franklin Tree. History-Columbus’ Fleet, 2-cent Jefferson, 1-cent Wash-i n g t o n, Lexington-Concord, 1926 Sesquicentennial, 3-cent Lincoln, U. S. Postal Service, Valley Forge, Sesquicentennial of Constitution, Davy Crockett. Transportation — Louisiana Riverboat, Pony Express, •Robert Fulton Clermont, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Erie Canal, Great Lakes, Steamship Savannah and Overland Mail. New U.S. Postal Service Takes Over Duties July 1 By CLAYTON HARMON President Asheville Stamp Club On Thursday, July 1, for the first time in history, the Post Office is going to give away “free samples”. With a limited number, one to a customer, first come, first served basis, the public will be offered an official cacheted envelope. On this date the Post Office will also issue an 8 cent special stamp marking the complete transition from the ‘Post Office Department to the United States Postal Service. The USPS will make a specially imprinted envelope decorated in four colors with the old and new seals, free of charge to any person at any post office. The customer may affix the USPS special stamp to the .envelope and the local post office will cancel with a July 1 postmark. A number of the envelopes will be stamped and cancelled in advance to speed up service for the price of the stamp alone. Persons who desire more than a single copy of the souvenir cover may order them by mail From the Postmaster, Washington, D. C. 20013. Price will be 8 cents for the stamp to be affixed and 7 cents additional handling charge per cover. These covers will bear a Washington, D. C. postmark. Conventional cacheted covers or plain envelopes along with 8 cents per stamp may be sent to Washington to receive the July 1 cancellation. Here is an opportunity for collectors with an artistic touch to create their own designs for cancellation at their local post office. What’s the reason behind all this extra activity? It’s all part of the plan to focus attention and interest in the inauguration of the new United States Postal Service. This postal reorganization “will provide better mail service for our citizens and better careers for our employees,” to quote a recent statement of Postmaster General Winston M. Blount. The expectation is that many Americans who are not stamp collectors thus will also share in the birthday observance of the U. S. Postal Service, and start their own collections. Most patrons of the Post Office are interested only in a letter getting to its destination as soon as possible. They could care less about the colors of the stamp or when it was issued. Postal officials are beginning to recognize the impact and importance of stamps and how they look, the reason for this re-appraisal is motivated by over 25 million dollars “clear profit” made on commemorative stamps during fiscal 1970. They hope to double this profit and revenue during the next five years. There is a definite increase in the number of people interested in stamps. Locally, the Asheville Stamp Club was reactivated in May, 1970, and presently has a membership of 52. It meets monthly on the third Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Carolina Power & Light Co. A stamp store has recently opened in Asheville, Robox Stamp & Accessories, located at Westgate Shopping Center and is owned and managed by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Box. In 1969 the two stamp clubs in Charlotte sponsored an exhibit which attracted about 125 visitors. Last year they invited dealers to participate and had a speaker from New York City. More than 500 visited the exhibit. The clubs plan another exhibit July 24 and 25 that will probably attract 1,000 visitors this year. All this indicates a tremendous increase of interest here in North Carolina in those little pieces of artwork stamps. In no other area of human endeavor does one have more latitude of freedom than with the hobby of stamp collecting. Take your pick of any country. Even Russia or those she dominates. You can collect, buy sell, trade from any country (except current issues from Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and South Rhodesia. Even now, with Red China, the ban has been lifted. Another fast growing area of collecting is by topic or theme. Space issues have overtaken paintings, religion, sports, animals, flowers, birds, trains and ships for first place in 1970 among topical collectors. Organized in 1948 by a teenager, The American Topical Association now has over 9,000 members, The most important reason for belonging to such an organization is the contacts one makes with those who can help with problems and questions on stamps. Educators have long recognized the potential ol stamp collecting in teaching U. S. history. The nation’s stamps^ reflect the history culture and accomplishments of our country. As the U. S. Postal Service starts operation, it is an opportune time to begin a collection of these miniature works of art that reflect America’s heritage. The tremendous amount of profit to be made from stamps sold to collectors make it “fair game” for certain governments to take advantage of unknowing but enthusiastic admirers of beautiful labels under the guise of stamps. The American Philatelic Society, which is the world’s largest group of collectors (over 23,000 members), has a regular feature called “Black Blots” in their monthly Journal. This is to alert its members to those countries who take unfair advantage of the elementary uninformmed collector. They make it clear you have complete freedom of choice to collect what you wish but this “watch-dog” committee uses the following criteria in appraising new postal emissions: 1. a limited printing or limited “on sale” time in country of origin. 2. an excessively extended issue. 3. unwarranted high value included. 4. no direct relationship to the issuing country. 5. Oddities intentionally included with the issue. Asheville was the setting for a philatelic item in August 1937. The Society of Philatelic Americans held an exhibit and meeting here, and to commemorate the event the Post Office Department issued a special souvenir sheet. The stamp design used was the 10 cent Great Smoky Mountain Park from the National Parks issue of 1934. The original stamp was in gray black but green was used for this printing. This issue Is a classic example of what determines the price or value of a stamp. When plans were being made, it was first decided to print two million copies. So much interest was shown, this figure was changed to five million. On the first day it was placed on sale, over 2% million were sold, but the remainder provided a surplus that even today the dealer advertised the purchase price for this beautiful philatelic item is 13 to 15 cents. Had the original figure been used, it is interesting to speculate its value today. The ever present law of supply and demand, the conditions plus the added ingredient of interest always determines the value of a stamp, no matter what its age. More and more recent U.S. postal issues are showing increased interest among collectors worldwide. This is particularly true of those connected with the space program. In 1967 two stamps were issued depicting the first walk in space. The unique feature was that it took two horizontal stamps to complete the scene. The worldwide demand for this set has caused dealers to search and advertise for supplies to meet the demand from collectors. The latest “buy” offer for a sheet of 50 is $20 and for a plate block of 4—$4.30. The original cost at the post office was $2 for the sheet of 50. Other “se tenant” (joined together) issues are beginning to appear in the “want” columns — the four beautification of America, the four Botanical Congress and the four Natural History issues, all in 1969. The well – publicized first man-on the-moon stamp of 1969 is also on the rise. These stamps are still available at a few post offices. It seems Uncle Sam’s stamps have at last arrived, The vast quantity necessary to move all the mail within the United States (as much as all the rest of the world combined) has, in the past, been a glut on the philatelic market. The improved designs, ideas and methods of color printing are beginning to be utilized by our postal officials and, judging from the increased demand for recent issues, U. S. stamps are on the move. The step to offer cacheted covers on July 1 is one in the right direction. What could be wrong with the new U. S. Postal Service producing its own official cacheted envelopes for first day covers? Some dealers will cry, “government intervention in private industry.” However, the long range benefits are increased numbers of collectors and the profit going to the Postal Service. The name of the game is to get the Postal Service on a businesslike basis anyway and remove the political strings so long a drag and reason for its being in the red. Many new ideas are being considered to produce philatelic materials related to its commemorative stamps. Stamp packets as well as souvenir cards featuring commemoratives and the 1971 Christmas stamps are being considered. Even non-philatelic products such as reproductions of N a t i o n a 1 Gallery paintings, all to be offered for sale at the nation’s 32,000 post offices. One thing is certain—July 1 will be the dawn of a new era in U. S. stamp collecting. Many collectors will want to see how many different USPS official envelopes they can assemble. This will create a new market or facet of a hobby, which not only enriches one’s education, but also involves great pleasure and the possibility of future profit. It’s the little man’s stock market…	Asheville Citizen Times
6/30/1971	Asheville Stamp Club granted an American Philatelic Society Charter.	APS Website
7/18/1971	Stamp Club Meets To Feature Quiz – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its monthly meeting Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Carolina Power and Light Co. Building. The program will feature results and answers to a quiz on United States stamps on which members have been working for the past month.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/19/1971	7:30 p.m,. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP& L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
8/15/1971	Stamp Club Meets Monday – The August meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Carolina Power & Light Building. The meeting will feature auctions of a wide variety of U.S. and foreign stamps offered by members. The U.S. stamp quiz sponsored by the Club produced widespread interest and was concluded at the July meeting. The winner was W. S. Pruett. The runner-up was Dr. E. L. Demmon. Another quiz may be held at a later dated. The Club welcomes visitors to all of its meetings. For information phone Clayton Harmon, president, at 252-5481; or Harry R. Mosser, Asst. Secy., at 645-7234. The Asheville Stamp Club is now an accredited chapter of the American Philatelic Society.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/20/1971	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
9/21/1971	Image – Valuable Donation – Dr. E. L. Demmon, left, and Clayton Harmon, president of the Asheville Stamp Club, looked through one volume on United States commemorative stamps that was a part of Dr. Demmon’s collection of philatelic literature, which he donated to the stamp club at a meeting of the club Monday night at Carolina Power and Light Co. Building. The collection contains monthly issues of “The American Philatelist” from 1938 through 1962, rare periodicals and other bookd on stamp collection. The collection will be place in Pack Memorial Reference Library as soon as space is available, Harmon said. (Staff Photo byu Malcolm Gamble)	Asheville Citizen Times
10/18/1971	Asheville Stamp Club Meeting Set Tonight: Charles Siddaway will present a slide program of the 1970 London stamp show, “Philympia,” at a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7:30 p.m. in the Carolina Power and Light Co. building on O’ Henry Avenue. Clayton Harmon, president, has invited interested persons.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/18/1971	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
11/14/1971	Stamp Club Meets Monday – The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Carolina Power & Light Building. The speaker will be W. F. Casteel of Asheville, a member of the club. He will report on the original Asheville Stamp Club of which he was an officer. It was that predecessor club which on August 26-28, 1937 sponsored the 43rd annual Convention of the Society of Philatelic Americans in Asheville. For that occasion the U.S. Post Office issued a commerative souvenir sheet of the 10 cents Great Smoky Mountains National Park stamp. This genuine stamp is a collectors’ item, only 5,277,445 having been issued. The Asheville Stamp Club recently acquired a small supply of stamps, available at $1, for the benefit of the club, at the Robox Stamp Store, 90 Westgate Shopping Center. Visitors are always welcome at meetings of the club held regularly on the third Monday of each month.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/20/1971	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
1/17/1972	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
2/21/1972	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
3/20/1972	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
4/16/1972	Stamp Club Meets Monday The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p. m., Monday at the Carolina Power & Light Company. Plans for the Stamp Show Ashepex ’72 to be held May 20-21 at Holiday Inn West will be discussed. Awards for exhibits will be given and judges for the event nave been selected and confirmed. Twelve dealers have already entered. The mechanics of preparing an exhibit frame will be shown and discussed. As the exhibitors will be limited to Western North Carolina residents, visitors are urged to attend the meeting Monday to learn more about this important facet of stamp collecting. Any collector is invited to exhibit in the May 20-21 show. To obtain a prospectus or application form write the Asheville Stamp Club, P. O. Box 250, Asheville, N. C. 28802.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/17/1972	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
5/14/1972	Stamp Club To Sponsor Major Show May 20-21 The Asheville Stamp Club will sponsor a major regional stamp show, “Ashepex ’72,” on May 20-21 at the Holiday Inn, West. The show features many exhibits of 19th and 20th Century stamps, U. S. Foreign and topical displays. Prizes will be awarded in each of the three classes. . Located on the Smoky Mountain Highway (Routes 19, 23) at MO, the Holiday Inn, is convenient to residents of Western North Carolina and adjoining slates. Free parking is available. The show opens at 11 a.m. on each day and will close at 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 20 and at 5 p.m. the following day. Single admissions are 50 cents; family admissions $1. A wide variety of domestic and foreign stamps will be offered for sale by well known cooperating dealers. Albums and philatelic supplies will be available for beginners and advanced collectors. The Asheville Stamp Club is a chapter of The American Philatelic Society. Members include owners of prize-winning collections of unusual interest to collectors and noncollectors. Other Western North Carolina stamp clubs, including Brevard and Hendersonville, are participating in the show. A feature of the show will , be a special counter, staffed by the Asheville Post Office, to cancel stamps on special sourvenir envelopes with the official “ashepex ’72” cancellation. The Asheville Post Office will also participate with city and county officials in the ribbon-cutting ceremonies, A free identification and evaluation service will be provided on any stamps, envelopes and post cards brought to the show by visitors. Appropriate door prizes will be awarded visitors several times each day. The Club has many lady members. One is a retired missionary whose collection of Japanese stamps is highly regarded. Teenagers are also members, as well as novice and advanced collectors of all ages. A popular class Is Confederate stamps. Several representative exhibits are expected. Topical exhibits include world-wide stamps covering such subjects as Christmas; birds; animals; flowers; butterflies; autos; fish; art masterpieces; etc. Other groups may include: airmails; precancels; first day covers; and U. S. mint plate blocks and singles. The original Asheville Stamp Club, in 19 3 7, sponsored the 43rd Annual Convention of the Society of Philatelic Americans at the Battery Park Hotel. For the event the U. S. Post Office issued a commemorative souvenir sheet depicting the 10 cent Smoky Mountains National Park stamp. This genuine stamp is a collectors’ item, only 5,277,445 having been issued. A limited supply of this stamp will be on sale. The Club hopes to have available a few of the new Cape Hatteras National Seashore stamps … a block of four 2 cent stamps, each different, depicting as a block a seashore area on North Carolina’s famous coast. This unusual stamp is, in effect, a four panel mural. Other recent com-memoratives will also be available.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/20/1972	The Asheville Stamp Club is sponsoring a major regional stamp show at Holiday Inn West Saturday and Sunday. Show opens 11 a.m. each day and closes at 10 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/20/1972	Major Stamp Show Opens Here Today The Asheville Stamp Club wil sponsor a major regional show “Ashepex ’72,” Saturday and Sunday, at the Holiday Inn West. The show will feature many exhibits of 19th and 20th century stamps, U. S. foreign and topical displays. Prizes will be awarded in each of these three classes. The show opens at 11 a.m each day and closes at 10 p.m on Saturday and at 5 p.m. the following day. Single admission are 50 cents; family admissions $1. Dealers will offer a wide variety of foreign and domestic stamps for sale. Albums and philatelic supplies will be available for beginners and advanced collectors. A special service offered by the Asheville Post Office wil be cancelling stamp on souvenir envelopes with the official “Ashepex ’72” cancellation. Another extra feature will be the availability of the new Cap Hatteras National Seashore stamps which feature coastal scenes on a block of four-two cent stamps. The sponsoring club is member of the American Philatelic Society. Other chapters throughout Western North Carolina, Including Brevard and Hendersonville, will be participating.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/21/1972	Stamps Attract Collectors – Rev. Charles Covell, left, of the Hendersonville Stamp Club and Walter F. Koch of the Asheville Stamp Club look at some prime stamps at “Ashepex ’72,” the region’s major show. At the show, held May 20-21 at the Holiday Inn West, stamps of a foreign and topical nature, as well as once-issued collectors’ items will be on sale. Also available are a few of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Stamps, a block of four stamps, each different, that when used together give the effect of a four panel mural.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/20/1972	Stamp Club Elects Demmon As President – E. L. Demmon was elected president of the Asheville Stamp Club at a meeting Monday night in the Carolina Power and Light Co. building. He succeeds Clayton Harmon. The club’s new vice president is Marshall Acee, and reelected officers are Miss Marion G. Simons, secretary; and Col. Austin B. Speed, treasurer. A report was given on the successful stamp exhibition held here last month and plans were made for another show to be held in the spring of 1973.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/17/1972	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
7/23/1972	Stamps In The News West Berlin Honors Lieberman’s Artistry By SYD KRONISH AP Newsfeatures Art afficionados are quick to pay tribute to the famous French impressionist painters. Many of the works ol Renoir, Cezanne, Manet and others of this popular school appear on postage stamps. But few are aware of the one German impressionist whose artistic endeavors arc equal to his counterparts across the Rhine. The German impressionist is Max Lieberman (1847-1935) and he is being singly honored by West Berlin with a new 40 pfennig stamp. This new adhesive, according to the World Wide Philatelic Agency, honors the 125th anniversary of his birth and bears a self-portrait on wood. Lieberman’s popularity in his home country is attested by his becoming president of the Art Academy in Berlin and having received t h e decoration “Pour le merite” — famous in military parlance as “The Blue Max.” This new stamp, as well as three new ones in the continuing “Safety First” series by West Germany, are available at. your local stamp dealer or department store. The American First-Day Cover Society has prepared and is offering free to collectors a list of U. S. stamps (about 90) that bear a relationship to the 200th anniversary celebration of the American Revolution. The listing has been prepared under the headings of patriots, places, symbols, historical flags, events and the 13 original colonies. Each is noted according to year of issue, denomination, subject and catalog number. To get a copy of this list, just send a stamped, addressed large-size envelope to American First-Day Cover Society, E. Koehler, 2527 Farnam St., LaCrosse, Wis. 54501. As I said, there is no charge for this interesting little list. Something new has been added!! The main Asheville Post Office now has a philatelic clerk. All stamp collectors will be grateful to the postmaster, Jack Garner and Harold Brookshire for establishing this new service. Calvin Patterson will be in charge. ‘He did such an excellent job during the “Ashcpex ’72” stamp show in May, the Asheville Stamp Club members are happy to see him in this new role. The U. S. Postal service is displaying a new awareness to the historical and educational appeal of postage stamps. This new addition to the Asheville scene is appreciated by the members of the Asheville Stamp Club and all collectors of the area. Visitors are always welcome at meetings scheduled each third Monday of every month, 7:30 p.m. at the Carolina Power & Light Company. Britain is proud of its latest set of stamps highlighting old village churches and depicting examples o f architectural styles dating back over 1,100 years. I The lowest value shows St. I Andrews Church in Essex built in 845 A. D. It is the only surviving example of a wooden Saxon stave church. Another stamp illustrates All Saints at Earls Barton, Northamptonshire. St Andrews at Letheringsett in Norfolk, built shortly after the Norman conquest In 1066, is seen on the 7>/i pence in the series. The highest value bears a view of St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church and dates back to 1200. Topical collectors, w h o specialize in churches, will be anxious to add this new set to their books. The American Stamp Dealers Assn, will sponsor two new stamp shows in addition to its annual ASDA event in November. The first of these is the ASDA International Philatelic Fair — Chicago ’73 scheduled for March 30. 1973. The second is the ASDA Philatelic Fair — New York, to be held April, 6, 1973. Norway will issue four new stamps to commemorate the 1,100th anniversary of the unification of that country under Harald the Fairhaired in 872. The 50-ore stamp shows a detail of a stone carving at Alstad. The 80 ore depicts a dragon’s head stone post carving found at Oseberg. The 120 ore features a sword hjlt found at Steinsvik, Lodingcn.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/21/1972	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
9/17/1972	Stamp Club Meets Monday – Mrs. Dorothy Minto of Hendersonville will present the program at the September meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club to be held on the second floor of the Carolina Power & Light Co. building on O’Henry Ave., at 7:30 p.m., Monday. Mrs. Minto’s discussion and slide program is based on the commeration of the 50th Anniversary of Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb as depicted on postage stamps of the world. King Tutankhamen was a relatively unimportant Egyption king, about whom we know very litt.e. However, the discovery of his tomb is probably the greatest single find in Egyption archaeology. For 3,265 years this tomb retained its wealth and mysteries. The Asheville Stamp Club meets every third Monday of each month.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/5/1972	Art On Stamps To Be Exhibited By Collectors – Hundreds of postage stamps reproducing famous paintings will be shown during the week of Nov. 13 through 19 at the Asheville Art Musuem and Pack Library. The exhibitions will be sponsored by the Asheville Stamp Club in observance of the 24th annual National Stamp Collection Week. Development within recent years of high-speed multicoler presses has provided not only the U.S. Postal Service, but postal administrations throughout the world an opportunity of drafting fine art in minature as the designs for postage stamps, creating at-home museums for collectors everywhere. In addition to the displays planned in Asheville, the Asheville Stamp Club will host a mini-exhibit at the Tunnel Road Shopping Center Mall on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18. Members of the club will be on hand to answer questions. The Asheville Stamp Club meets the third Monday of each month at 8 p.m. in the CP&L meeting room.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/12/1972	The Asheville Stamp Club is sponsoring an exhibition at the Tunnel Road Shopping Center next Friday and Saturday of postage stamps that picture famous paintings, sculptures, and other masterpieces of art. Samples will be on display at the Library and the Art Musuem this week.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/18/1973	Stamp Club Meets Monday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Carolina Power & Light Co. Building, Monday. The club plans to draw a resolution to petition the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp for returning POW’s. E. L. Demmon, president, will preside.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/11/1973	Stamp Exhibition Set – The Asheville Stamp Club will sponsor postage stamp exhibition “ASHEPEX ’73” May 19-20 at Holiday Inn West. Hours of the exhibit will be from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. May 19 and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 20. Exhibits are open to the public and prizes will be awarded.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/13/1973	Stamp Club To Host ExhibitionMay 19-20 The Asheville Stamp Club will sponsor its second annual stamp exhibition and bourse “Ashepex ’73” on May 19-20 at the Holiday Inn West. The show will feature exhibits of U.S., Foreign and Topical stamps presented by area collectors. Prizes will be awarded in each of the three classes and the public will have an opportunity to vote for the exhibit they consider the most interesting. In addition to the stamp exhibits, there will be a ten-dealer bourse offering stamps of all nations for sale. Dealers will be present from seven surrounding states as well as North Carolina. Albums and philatelic supplies will be available for beginners and advanced collectors. The Asheville Stamp Club is affiliated with two major philatelic societies: The American Philatelic Society, and the Society of Philatelic Americans. Both of these societies will have a representative at the show to acquaint interested persons with the functions of their organizations. The prizes awarded winning exhibits this year will be the A.P.S. Chapter Awards. The Postal Service again through the cooperation of the Asheville Post Office, will provide a sub-station both days from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and a special-show postmark to cancel all mail including the special cachet souvenir en velopes prepared by the Asheville Stamp Club for the event. Many of the recent commemorative stamps, including the new Postal People stamps and the Harry S. Truman memorial stamps, will be on sale, as well as the current regular issues, airmail, special delivery and postage-due stamps. The special cachet envelopes offered for sale by the Asheville Stamp Club at 35 cents each or three for one dollar will prove most interesting to collectors. In keeping with our American Revolution Bi-Centennial Celebraiton, three attractive designs depicting North Carolina’s part in the “Rise of the Spirit of Independence” have been printed. The envelopes will be franked with appropriate recent com-m e m o r atives illustrating these eariy events and will be of interest, not only to collectors, but North Carolina history buffs. The cachets are also available by mail from the club at P. 0. Box 250, Asheville, N.C. 28802 for the above sum plus a large selfaddressed stamped envelope. “Ashepex ’73” will open at 11 a.m. both days and dose at 10 p.m. on Saturday and 5 p.m. on Sunday. Door prizes will be awarded every hour with one main door prize to be awarded Sunday afternoon. A small admissionn charge will be made of 50 cents per person or $1 per family.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/20/1973	Stamp Show Closes – The Asheville Stamp Club will close its second annual stamp exhibition Sunday at Holiday Inn West. The show, which features 40 frames of stamps from 20 distributors and 10 dealers throughout the country, will be ope from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/16/1973	Stamp Club Meets Tonight – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its first meeting with the 1973-74 officers at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the community room of Carolina Power and Light Co. The new president, Charles Siddaway, will preside. A visitor will be present to describe plans to petition the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp in 1975 on the subject of “Woman’s Year.” All members and guests are urged to attent.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/7/1973	Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at North Asheville Community Center.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/4/1973	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, North Asheville Community Center.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/10/1974	Stamp Club Plans Film, Auction Here – The Asheville Stamp Club will present a film from the United Nations Postal Administration, entitled “26 x 36 Messenger,” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18. After the film there will be an auction of stamps and philatelic material offered by club members. The club meets in the Carolina Power and Light Co. Lounge at 8 O. Henry Ave.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/5/1974	Stamp Club Seeks Local Old Envelopes – The Asheville Stamp Club is seeking old postmarked envelopes mailed from the Asheville Post Office for its annual stamp exhibit scheduled for May 25-26 at the Asheville Mall. E.L. Demmon, past president of the club, said those who have postmarked envelopes dating back to the 1800s should contact him at 253-5774. Demmon said this year’s stamp exhibit will illustrate the early history of the Asheville Post Office. Any envelope received by the club will be returned to the owner following the exhibit.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/19/1974	Stamp Exhibit Opens In Mall Saturday – The third annual stamp exhibit “ASHEPEX ’74” sponsored by the Asheville Stamp Club will be held Saturday, Sunday and Monday at the Asheville Mall. The exhibit will consist of fifty frames in a vertical format and presented by area collectors. In addition, there will be exhibits by the U.S. Postal Service through the cooperation of the Asheville Post Office, the U.N. Postal Administration and memorabilia of early postal history in Western North Carolina. Entries for competition will be accepted from members of the newly-formed Carolina Federation of Stamp Clubs and three awards will be presented in each of the three categories. Additional information may be obtained by writing the Exhibition Chairman, ASHEPEX ’74, Asheville Stamp Club, P.O. Box 250, Asheville, N.C. 28802	Asheville Citizen Times
5/25/1974	Stamp Club Plans Exhibit – The Asheville Stamp Club will sponsor its third annual stamp exhibit, “ASHEPEX ’74,” at the Asheville Mall Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The exhibit will feature 50 frames mounted six pages to a frame in a vertical format presented by area collectors. In addition, memorabillia of early postal history of Western North Carolina will be on display with exhibits by the U.S. Postal Service through the cooperation of the Asheville Post Office and the U.N. Postal Administration. Entries for competition will be accepted from members of the newly-formed Carolina Federation of Stamp Clubs and three awards will be presented in each of three categories.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/25/1974	International exhibit: An international exhibit with emphasis on United Nations Day will be presented at the Tunnel Road Shoppin Center until 3 p.m. Saturday. Exhibits by Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Asheville Stamp Club and area schools will be on display.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/20/1975	The Asheville Stamp Club will elect officers at its annual meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Carolina Power and Light Co. building. Also to be discussed is a stamp auction and a stamp show in May. Charles Siddaway is president.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/12/1975	Asheville Stamp Club To Sponsor Show – ASHEPEX ’75, a stamp show sponsored by the Asheville Stamp Club, will be held May 17-18 at Rodeway Inn. Already scheduled to participate at the 50-frame, 10 dealer show are the American Philatelic Society, Society of Philatelic Americans and the U.S. Postal Service.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/7/1975	Swiss Exhibit To Be Shown By Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club’s fourth annual stamp exhibition and exchange will take place May 17-18 at the Rodeway Inn. The event, “ASHEPEX ’75,” will feature exhibits from collectors in North and South Carolina as well as a special exhibit from the Swiss Postal Authority. Awards will be given in the U.S., foreign, topical and junior categories, with the public having an opportunity to participate in the voting. Hours of the exhibition are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. There is no admission charge.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/29/1975	Stamp Club Backs Wolfe Commemorative – The Asheville Stamp Club has announced its support and endorsement of Dr. Claude Frazier’s suggestion for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp honoring the late author, Thomas Wolfe. The request will soon be taken to the Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C., and the club urges all citizens to write in support of the approval of the stamp to Grant S. Shotwell, Senior Representative, Government Relations Department, Washington, D.C.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/5/1975	Commemorative Wolfe Stamp Goal of Club – A commerative postage stamp honoring Thomas Wolfe is the goal of the Asheville Stamp Club. According to C. J. Sumner, club president, handbills urging that the author be thus honored have been printed and placed at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial on Spruce Street. The club is urging interested citizens to write the Office of The Postmaster General and request that the Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Commitee approve the Wolfe Stamp. “We think it would be an excellent way to advertise Asheville and Thomas Wolfe throughout the world,” Sumner said. Wolfe’s 75th birthday will be celebrated this October. Interested persons have asked to contact Sumner or write to Grant S. Shotwell, Senior Representative, Government Relations Department, Office of the Postmaster General, Washington, D.C. 20260.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/18/1975	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, CP&L Building	Asheville Citizen Times
8/20/1975	Buncombe County Board of Commissioners heard a proposal from C. J. Sumner, president of the Asheville Stamp Club, to ask the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative stamp on the 75th birthday anniversary of Asheville’s late internationally known author, Thomas Wolfe. The board adopted a resolution to that effect.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/30/1975	Image Mounting A Campaign With Thomas Wolfe’s 75th birthday Asheville Stamp Club, and Bob Conway and accompanying celebration less than of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. The Of- two months away, some local fans of the Office of the U. S. Postmaster General, late Asheville author are campaigning responding to urgings for the stamp by hard for a Wolfe commemorative postal private individuals and groups, local stamp. Here, U. S. Rep. Roy A. Taylor, government and legislators such as left, receives a petition for issuance of Taylor, is now considering the proposal, such a stamp from Dr. Claude C. (Staff Photo by Malcolm Gamble) Frazier, C. J. Sumner, president of the Asheville Stamp Club, and Bob Conway of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. The Office of the U.S. Postmaster General, responding to urgings for the stamp by private individuals and groups, local government and legislators such as Taylor, is now condidering the proposal. (Staff Photo by Malcolm Gamble)	Asheville Citizen Times
2/4/1976	Junior Stamp Club To Meet In March – The Asheville Junior Stamp Club now being organized will meet from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, at the North Asheville Community Center. The club is open to all young people whether they are advanced stamps collectors or beginners. There will be several stamp exhibits, stamps to help start a collection and a demonstration on how to soak and mount stamps attractively. For more details, call Raymond Bily at 252-1210.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/15/1976	’76 Stamp Show Slated In Center On May 22-23 A Bicentennial salute to American history will be the theme of Ashepex ’76 Stamp Show scheduled in the Civic Center on May 22-23. Fifty frames of exhibition stamps will be submitted to the jury for judging. The show will afford ample opportunity for philatelists to show interesting and various types of collections to the public. There will be exhibits in each of the standard classes of stamps. Other highlights of the Stamp Show will be: A cacheted cover has been prepared featuring the Battle of King’s Mountain, which was fought on Oct. 7, 1980, on the border of North and South Carolina. This was one of the most brilliant victories of the Revolutionary War. It had an important influence in the downfall of British power in the South. Twelve of the best known dealers in this and neighboring states will be setting up attractive displays and booths. The show will feature a special booth where people can purchase recent and not so recent stamps direct from the Asheville Post office at the show. Three educational workshops will be conducted by Gary Flatou on Nimrodx “Nimrod Specials”; Austin Speed on “Complete Colombians of 1895”; and Vernon Stroupe on “Holey Stamps.” Each of these workshops promises to be an outstanding exhibit in itself. A special feature this year will be exhibits by the Junior Stamp club members of the Asheville Stamp Club and the Benjamin Franklin Junior Clubs which have recently been organized in the county. Further information of the show is available from Vernon Stroupe. general manager P. 0. Box 250. Asheville, N.C. 28802.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/16/1976	Stamp Show – The fifth annual Asheville Stamp Show, “Ashepex ’76,” will be held Friday throught Sunday in the Banquet Hall of the Asheville Civic Center. Sponsored by the Asheville Stamp Club, the show will have as its theme a Bicentennial salute to American history. It will feature a 12 dealers trading and competitive fifty-fram exhibition. A U.S. Postal Service station wil be set up to sell recent and not-so-recent stamps. It will be equipped to apply the special “Ashepex ’76” cancellations to the souvenir cachet, depicting the Battle of Kings Mountain.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/16/1976	Stamp Show… ‘Ashepex 76′ Opens In Civic Center Saturday The Asheville Stamp Club will sponsor a major regional show “Ashepex ’76” on May 22-23 in the Banquet Room. Civic Center Asheville. Ashepex ’76 will be formally opened with a stamp ribbon cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday. May 22. On hand to do the honors will be Acting Postmaster Paul Maupin, ViceMayor Bill Horton and president of the local club. C.J. Sumner. The show opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m., on Saturday, and opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free. A special program in keeping with the Bicentennnial Theme has been prepared and will be on sale at the door for 15 cents. Appropriate and unusual door prizes will be awarded visitors several times each day. Ashepex 76 will feature exhibits of the 19th and 20th century stamps — U.S.. Foreign Topical displays in attractively designed exhibitions. Special prizes will be awarded in each of the three classes. Three competent judges. John Foxworth, Hans Steinhardt and Larry Vincent will select the exhibition winners. One of the many special features this year at Ashepex ’76 will be 12 exhibits by the Junior Stamp Club under the direction of Raymond Billy. A wide variety of domestic and foreign stamps will be offered for sale by 11 reputable dealers of WNC, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina. Albums and philatelic supplies will be available tor beginners and advanced collectors. Educational workshops will be held on Saturday. The first workshop will start at I p.m. under the direction of Col. Austin Speed on “U.S. Columbians” and “The Cantons of Switzerland”. Gary Flatow, a discerning and sophisticated collector, will preside over the workshop on “U. S. Duck Stamps” at 2:20 p.m. and the final workshop at 3:15 p.m. will be presented on “Holey Stamps” by an expert in that class, Vernon Stroupe. As a special service to Ashepex ’76 and its visitors, the Asheville Post Office will staff a special counter to supply a wide variety of new and not-so-new commemoratives and definitive stamps. The cachet cover of Ashepex ’76 commemorates the famous “Battle of King’s Mountain” that was fought October 7, 1780. It was fitting that Ashepex ’76 select this noted battle of our area for the Bicentennial cachet cover for the show. Hie cachet will be available at die show with a special “First in Freedom” cancellation with stamps of your choice. The Asheville Stamp Club, a chapter of The American Philatelic Society, has a membership of 50 active members that include owners of prize winnings and unusual collections. One member is a retired missionary whose collection of Japanese stamps is highly valued. Teenagers are also members, as well as beginners and advanced collectors of all ages. The Club exemplifies t h e philosophy that philately can be a fun affair for the entire family. Unique Display Clayton Harmon of the Asheville Stamp Club stands by his unique display of cachets each bearing the U.S. stamp of a state flag and first day cancellations from each of the 50 state capitals. The 50-state stamp sheet was released by the Postal Service on Feb. 23. Harmon has since been at work completing his first-day cancellations, with Mississippi being the last state in. The layout will be on display during “Ashepex ’76” stamp show in the Civic Center, May 22-23. (Staff Photo by June Glenn Jr.)	Asheville Citizen Times
5/17/1976	“Ashepex ’76’,” sponsored by the Asheville Stamp Club, will be held Friday through Sunday in the banquet hall of the Asheville Civic Center. The theme of the show will be a Bicentennial salute to American history and will feature a 12-dealer bourse and a competitive exhibition.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/3/1976	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Junior Stamp Club will have its third monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the North Asheville Community Center. Included in the program is a stamp auction sale. For more details call Raymond Billy at 252-1210.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/2/1976	Saturday Schedule for Mountain Jubilee: 11:30 a.m. – Asheville Stamp Club Essay presentation.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/4/1977	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, North Asheville Community Center.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/17/1977	Club To Meet: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in First Congregational Church 306 Merrimon Avenue. A program on microfilming stamps for inventory records will be presented.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/21/1977	Club To Meet: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in First Congregational Church on Merrimon Avenue. Dr. Donald Gehring of students at Mars Hill College will speak.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/4/1977	Stamp Club Party – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its annual Christmas party at 7:30 p.m. Monday at First Congregational Churst at 308 Merrimon Ave.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/5/1977	Stamp Club Party – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its annual Christmas party at 7:30 p.m. Monday at First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/6/1977	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, North Asheville Community Center.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/2/1978	Stamp Club Meet Is Scheduled – The Asheville Junior Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the North Asheville Community Center.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/14/1978	ASHEPEX ’78… Asheville Stamp Club Show Set May 20-21 The Asheville Sump Club, a chartered chapter of the 40.000-plus members global American Philatelic Society, will salute Carl Sandburg throughout its sixth annual ASHEPEX sUmp show and bourse May 20-21. Show site is Asheville’s Holiday Inn West. 19-23 and 1-40 Hours are 10 am-8 pm Admission is free. A special cacheted Sandburg cover (stamped envelope) and other commemorations ol the famous author, musician and poet are being provided. The show, increasingly popular among philatelists throughout the country because of its Lindbergh and other commemorative and memorabilia classic collecting covers, has achieved steady national status Early this month. Inquiries seeking the cacheted and sUmped Sandburg covers began arriving trom Illinois. Michigan. New Jersey, the Carolinas and other sutes Last year s show attracted stamp collectors from the Carolinas. Georgia and Tennes- Sandburg, long a familiar notable in the Western North Carolina mountains as well as his native Illinois and across America, spent the last 22 years of his life at his Flat Rock estate. Connemara, near here, and did much of his latter years writing there The estate was acquired by the National Park Service in 1968 and opened to the public in 1974. It hosted 30.250 visitors in 1975. increased to 37,994 in 1976, and soanng to 40.000-plus in 1977. with visitors representing virtually all states National Park Service now estimates visitors at 59.000 in 1980 and 84,000 by 1985 ASHEPEX s official Sandburg cover is a combined unique documentary and philatelic creation It bears, in various back and front positions, a Sandburg portrait and reproduction of his signature, and a dedication In order to make the yield of their research, artistry and production available to Sandburg buffs and stamp collectors throughout the Carolinas and elsewhere, the club has prepared for this year’s ASHEPEX a series of Sandburg salute covers which will be obtainable at the show and by mall They are priced at nominal sums to help cover the cost of engraving, printing, purchasing the special Sandburg stamps and other overhead expenses These covers, all franked with the Sandburg stamp, are being made available The official ASHEPEX cover with the show cancel. 60 cents each or two for $1. An Artmaster First Day of (stamp i Issue cover. 60 cents each or two for $1. A picture postal card of Sandburg’s birthplace with first day of issue cancel, also 60 cents each or two tor $1. One each of all three covers $1.50. Those who wish to order covers by mail should send with their order a long envelope, suggestively, a No. 10 size, self-addressed and first rate postage stamped, for each order Checks and money orders lor mail orders should be made payable to the Asheville Stamp Club. All mail orders should be sent to ASHEPEX cachet chairman Carl Stephens. 99 Alpine Way. Asheville. NC 28806 in tune to arrive before May 20th. Proceeds remaining alter expenses are paid will be allocated to projects of the club which are highlighted by a large activity among young collectors ol the Asheville area Hans Steinhardt of Hendersonville is president of the club Other officers, all Asheville residents, are Charles Siddaway. vice president. Gary Flalow. treasurer , and Clayton Harmon, secretary. ASHEPEX committee members. also Asheville residents, are Vernon Stroupe. general chairman: Clarence Sumner, frame chairman. Sidaway. bourse chairman; Harmon, publicity chairman; Flatow. exhibition chairman, and Stephens, cadet-covers chairman A SPECIAL ASHEPEX STATION pictorial cancellation in the form of Sandburg’s guitar is shown on the souvenir cachet to be on sale during the stamp show. They may also be ordered by mail. 60 cents each or 2 for 11. Asheville Stamp Club, P.O. Box 250. Asheville. NC 28802	Asheville Citizen Times
5/27/1978	Philatelists – Members of the Asheville Stamp Club would like to thank the Asheville Citizen-Times, the radio stations, WLOS-TV, The Asheville Post Office and all individuals who contributed to the success of ASHEPEX ’78 May 20 and 21. The steady stream of visitors throughout both days was evidence they knew about the show. Orders for the special pictorial cancellation was received from practically every state and will, no doubt, become a collector’s item. Clayton Harmon, Secretary, Asheville Stamp Club, Asheville	Asheville Citizen Times
9/17/1978	Stamp Club Meets Monday – An auction will be held at the meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club at 7:30 p.m., Monday, in the Courthouse Annex, College St. The attendance prize will be the souvenir sheet (U.S.) from the International CAPEX Show held in Canada last June.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/21/1978	Stamp Facts – A recent backtalk letter gave a distorted view of stamp collectors and U.S. postage stamps. Let the facts speak for themselves: 1 – Stamp collecting is the world’s biggest hobby – more people participate in this hobby than any other. 2 – It is the accepted method, used by all nations, to publicize history, famous persons and historic sites. 3 – It is one of the largest revenue-producing departments of the U.S. Postal Service. 4 – It is a method used by many educators to teach the history of any nation; a “fun” way of learning. Clayton Harmon, Secretary, Asheville Stamp Club, 61 Wolfe Cove Road, Asheville.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/18/1979	Stamp Club Meet Scheduled Monday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the First Congregational Church on Merrimon Avenue. New officers of the group are Werner Grether, president; Hans Steinhart, vice president; Marian Simon, secretary; and Ralph Davis, treasurer.	Asheville Citizen Times

Date	Content	Source
1/18/1980	Stamp Club Meet: Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Congregational Church on Merrimon Ave.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/16/1980	Japan Is Club Theme – Japan will be the theme of a meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of the First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave. Slides of Japan will be shown in a addition to a display of Japanese stamps and souvenirs. The group will also discuss plats for “Ashepex ’80,” the club’s annual stamp show and bourse.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/19/1980	Image – Stamp Club – New aluminum and plexiglass frames for the Asheville Stamp Club’s annual exhibition are displayed by Vernon Stroupe, left, Ashepex ’80 chairman; and Marion Simons, club secretary. The show, open to the public without charge, will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 24-25, in the Holiday Inn West. (Staff Photo by Ewart Ball)	Asheville Citizen Times
4/19/1980	Stamp Club To Meet – Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the First Congregational Church, 308 Merrimon Avenue. The meeting will include an auction of U.S. and foreign stamps.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/11/1980	May Convention Schedule – 23-25 Asheville Stamp Club – Holiday Inn	Asheville Citizen Times
5/24/1980	ASHEPEX ’80 To Open Today ASHEPEX ’80, a stamp exhibition and sale sponsored by the Asheville Stamp Club, will be held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday In the Holiday Inn West Asheville. Admission is free. Highlights of the show will Include the sale booths of approximately 20 out-of-town dealers, according to Harold McCormick, Asheville Stamp Club vice president. In addition, more than 24 frames of exhibition stamps, owned by collectors from around the country, will be shown and judged. The exhibit will be divided into three categories – Wells Fargo and early mail delivery company stamps. Confederate stamps and envelopes, and U.S. postal history stamps. At 7 p.m. today an Informal dinner meeting will be held in the Holiday Inn West. Jack Williams, U.S. Postal Service coordinator for the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, will attend the dinner to hear stamp collectors’ suggestions and criticism of the committee’s work. He will also discuss the possibilities of the future issuance of stamps commemorating Thomas Wolfe and the Biltmore House. Williams’ appearance at the dinner will follow his visit to King’s Mountain to coordinate activities for the Issuance of a commemorative postal card for the Battle of King’s Mountain. The card, to be issued in October, will be part of the American Bicentennial Series. The theme and cacheted cover (stamped envelope) tor ASHEPEX ’80 will be Winter Olympics, USA. The bi-color cachet will feature the stamp commemorating the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in red and the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley in blue. The covers will be franked with a block of four 1980 Winter Olympics. Due to possible copyright infringement, the previously announced pictorial cancel design has been withdrawn and will be replaced with an Ashepex Station non-pictorial cancel. The cachets are available for $1 each. Cachet orders should be addressed to Ashepex ’80, P.O. Box 8317, Asheville, N.C. 28814.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/25/1980	May Convention Schedule – 23-25 Asheville Stamp Club – Holiday Inn	Asheville Citizen Times
7/1/1980	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, North Asheville Community Center.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/20/1980	Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the Fellowship Hall of the First Congregational Church. 308 Merromon Avenue, Asheville. The program will feature a stamp scavenger hunt and a stamp trading session.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/17/1980	Stamp Club Meets Monday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of First Congregational Church, 308 Merrimon Avenue. Charles Siddaway will demonstrate the indentification of “tagged” stamps with the use of an ultraviolet lamp.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/10/1980	Stamp Club Meeting Monday – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, in the U.S. Post Office Sectional Center at 593 Brevard Road. The club will take a tour of the facility and hold a business meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/15/1980	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, U.S. Post Office Sectional Center, 593 Brevard Rd.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/17/1980	Stamp Club Meets Monday: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of the First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave. in Asheivlle. A slide presentation entitled “A Philatelic Quiz” will be shown following a business meeting and a trade and sell session.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/20/1980	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, First Congregational Church, Merrimon Ave.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/16/1980	Stamp Club Meeting – Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave. in Asheville. Activities include a stamp auction and election of officers. For more information, call Harold McCormick at 252-5467.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/13/1981	Stamp Club to Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of the First Congregational Church on Merrimon Avenue.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/10/1981	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the First Congregational Church in Asheville. The club metes the third Mounday of every month.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/12/1981	Stamp Club Meets Monday – Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of First Congregational Church on Merrimon Avenue in Asheville.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/16/1981	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, First Congregational Church, Merrimon Avenue	Asheville Citizen Times
3/12/1981	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement fellowship hall of First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave in Asheville.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/16/1981	Stamp Club – Portuguese stamps will be featured at the 7 p.m. April 20 meeting of the Asheville Stamp Club in the First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/20/1981	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, First Congregational Church	Asheville Citizen Times
5/10/1981	Stamp Honors S&Ls – Asheville Federal Savings and Loan Association is celebrating the issuance of a commemorative stamp honoring the 150th anniversary of the savings and loan industry by featuring a stamp display furnished by the Asheville Stamp Club. Pictured with the display are Bob Haring, customer service director of the U.S. Postal Service in Asheville; Clarance J. Sumner, president of the Asheville Stamp Club; and Harmon M. Lee chairman of the board of Asheville Federal. The display will be in the main lobby of the association, at 11 Church St., through May 15.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/13/1981	Stamp Club Show Saturday-Sunday – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its annual show and bourse Saturday and Sunday in the Holiday Inn West in Asheville. One of the highlights of ASHEPEX ’81 will be the release of the club’s cacheted cover featuring Cherokee Chief Sequoyah. Plans for the show include a 12-dealer bourse and several hundred pages of exhibits. The U.S. Postal Service sell and cancel its lastest stamps. The Sequoyah envelopes will be franked with the Sequoyah stamp, issued in December 1980. An envelope insert, provided by the Cherokee Tribal Council in Cherokee, will outline the chief’s life. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/17/1981	ASHEPEX ’81, the Asheville Stamp Club’s annual show and bourse, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Holiday Inn West in Asheville.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/18/1981	7:30 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, First Congregational Church, Merrimon Avenue	Asheville Citizen Times
6/30/1981	Post Office Open House – In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Postal Service, the Postal Service in Asheville will hold an open house from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the general mail facility at 591 Brevard Road. The open house will feature guided tours, a philatelic display by the Asheville Stamp Club and refreshments. The public is invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/22/1981	Stamp Features Biltmore House By SONDRA J. HARRIS Staff Writer A national postage stamp featuring the Biltmore House is scheduled to be issued on Aug. 28, according to the U.S. Postal Service and Biltmore House officials. The gray 18-cent stamp with red lettering pictures the historical former home of George Vanderbilt as if the viewer were standing to the left of the front of the house and looking right,’ said Michael K. Smith, who works in marketing and public relations at Biltmore House. It will be one of four stamps issued in an architectural series. The other stamps in the series depict the Palace of Arts in San Francisco, designed by Bernard Maybeck; the New York University Library in New York, designed by Stanford White; and the Bank, Owatonna, Minn., designed by Louis Sullivan. The Biltmore House is the only privately-owned building in the series. It is owned by the Biltmore Co. The Biltmore House, built over a period from 1890 to 1895. was designed by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American to graduate with a degree in architecture from the Ecole of Beaux Arts in Paris. A celebration of the stamp is planned for September at the Biltmore House. The stamp is scheduled to be issued in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, but will not be available in local post offices until Aug. 29. A ceremony will be held at the National Buildings Museum in Washington, D.C., on the day the stamp is issued. The National Buildings Museum sponsored the architectural stamps, recommending the buildings to the U.S. Postal Stamp Development Branch. Smith said local Biltmore House officials plan to attend that ceremony. A special post office will be set up at Biltmore House in August where cachets — envelopes already stamped and decorated with an artist’s drawing of the house — will be available, said Robert Haring, director of customer service for the Oteen Post Office. The Asheville Stamp Club will also have a philatelic display. Some cachets will be canceled in Washington, D.C., on the date of issuance, and some will be canceled at the Biltmore Post Office on Aug. 29, the day the stamp is available locally. On the day it is issued, the stamp can be canceled only in Washington, according to law. Smith said the four architectural stamps will be sold together on the same perforated stamp sheet, and that rolls of Biltmore House stamps only will not be available. Last fall, the U.S. Postal Service Stamp Development Branch in Washington notified the Biltmore House that it had been selected for the new stamp and asked for photographs of the exterior of the house. Then postal service artists drew a picture for the stamp. The rectangular stamp measures 1^ inch by 1% inch. The Biltmore House was built in the French Renaissance style of the 16th century known as the Francis I style. It was designed after the three main chateaux (French for “castles”) in the Loire Valley, France: the Chambord, the Chenon-ceaux and the Blois. A poster which advertises the four new stamps features the Biltmore House, Smith said. He said no date has been set for .the September celebration of the Biltmore House stamp.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/14/1981	Mini Post Office At Biltmore Estate – The U.S. Postal Service will operate a mini post office Friday and Saturday at the Biltmore House so the public may buy the special Biltmore House Cancellation.” The special activity is being held in observance of National Stamp Collecting Month. The activity is sponsored in cooperation with the Council of Philatelic Organizations. Locally, the Asheville Stamp Club will participate with displays of stamps of special interest to this area. The Biltmore House stamp was issued in August as part of a block of four stamps honoring American architecture.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/18/1981	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, basement hall of the First Congregational Church, 308 Merrimon Ave. Admission is Free.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/13/1981	Stamp Club Meeting: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement hall of the First Congregational Churck at 308 Merrimon Ave.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/16/1981	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, basement of First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Avenue	Asheville Citizen Times
2/12/1982	Stamp Club to Meet: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of hall of the First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave. A silent auction will be held following the business meeting.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/15/1982	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, First Congregational Church, 308 Merrimon Ave.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/16/1982	Stamp Show Scheduled – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its annual stamp show and bourse, Ashepex ’82, May 22-23 in the Manor Inn on Charlotte Street. The show will include a 10-dealer bourse, offering a selection of stamps and supplies for area collectors. An exhibit of 300 pages of philatelic material will be shown in competition for numerous awards. For more information contact the Ashepex ’82 chairman, P.O. Box 8317, Asheville, 28814.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/11/1982	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the fellowship hall of First Congregational Church on Merrimon Avenue. Austin B. Speed will give a slide presentation on the 1893 Columbia Exposition commemorative stamp issue. Visitors are welcome to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/18/1983	Stamp Club To Meet The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 pm. Monday in the basement of First Congregational Church, 308 Merrimon Ave. Club members will present a program on catalog usage, mounting stamps, ultra-violet lamps, watermarks and perforations For more information. contact Harold McCormick at 252-5467.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/18/1983	Stamp Club to Meet: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement of the First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave. Club members will present a program on catalog usage, mountain stamps, ultra-violet lamps, water-marks and perforations. For more information, contact Harold McCormick at 252-5467.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/21/1983	7 p.m. – Asheville Stamp Club, basement of First Congregational Church, Merrimon Avenue	Asheville Citizen Times
5/15/1983	Stamp Exhibit – Ashepex ’83, the 11th annual exhibit of the Asheville Stamp Club, will be held May 21-22 at the Postal Service Distribution Center, 591 Brevard Road. Exhibit hours will be 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The exhibit will feature the 50th anniversary stamp of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The stamp, showing a rendition of the Norris Dam near Morristown, Tenn., will be issued in Knoxville on May 18. Members of the Asheville Stamp Club will carry the first day covers to Asheville.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/20/1983	Ashepex, the 11th annual exhibit of the Asheville Stamp Club, 20 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Postal Service Distribution Center, 591 Brevard Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/15/1983	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the basement fellowship hall of First Congregational Church at 308 Merrimon Ave.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/18/1984	Stamp Exhibition: Ashepex ’84, the annual stamp exhibition and dealer show sponsored by the Asheville Stamp Club, will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the U.S. Postal Service Center, 591 Brevard Road. Club Members and local school stamp clubs will show stamp exhibitions and there will be six dealer tables. The Postal Service will offer guided tours of the mailing facilities at noon, 2 and 4 p.m. each day.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/19/1984	Asheville Stamp Club Sets Annual Exhibition “Most everyone who collects stamps,” said Harold McCormick, “is introduced to collecting by someone else.” In McCormick’s case, his sons introduced him to collecting. “My oldest son began collecting stamps in junior high school 25 years ago,” he said. “When he noticed girls, he quit collecting and gave me his album. It was the same with our younger son, and when he quit collecting and gave me his album, I told my wife I had the beginnings of two good albums and I might as well collect stamps myself.” That was several years ago. Now the stamp albums cover eight feet on a shelf in the McCormick home at 65 Ridgelawn, West Asheville Besides being an avid stamp collector, McCormick is president of the Asheville Stamp Club, and as such be will be the major domo at the club’s 13th annual stamp show Saturday and Sunday at the U.S. Postal Service’s Sectional Center at 591 Brevard Road. The show, called “Ashepex ‘84” (for Asheville Philatelic Exhibit) will be open from 10 am. to 5 p.m. each day and no admission will be charged. Though its membership roll includes only 42 names, the Asheville Stamp Club Is one of the busiest organizations in town. It has been in existence since 1926 except for several years during and after World War II. Its roll includes men, women, and children. It meets the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. in the basement of the fellowship hall of First Congregational Church, 308 Merriman Ave. “Our meetings are routine,” McCormick said. “First we spend some time trading stamps, then we have a business meeting, a program, then swap some more stamps.” “Ashepex ’84” will feature stamp exhibits by club members, a dealer’s course given by six stamp dealers, stamp exhibits by Ben Franklin Stamp Club members from Hall Fletcher Middle School and Red Oak Elementary School, and a postal station where one can purchase the latest stamps and philatelic items from the Postal Service. In addition, tours of the postal facility will be offered. Moat members of the Asheville Stamp Club specialize in certain areas of stamp collecting. McCormick’s specialty is Japanese stamps “We had a son in Japan in 1967,” he said. ‘When we went to visit him he introduced me to a Japanese stamp collector who gave me an album. I have been collecting Japanese stamps since and keep a little money in a Japanese bank so this collector sends me the most recent issues.” Other members of the club collect stamps from Austria, West Germany, Switzerland, Europa, Luxembourg, Finland, the British Empire, Western Europe, Iceland. Canada, Korea, Eastern Europe, the British Commonwealth, New Zealand and Australia, Barbados, Russia, and China. Many of these will be displayed at the show this weekend.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/17/1984	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the fellowship hall of First Congregational Church, 308 Merrimon Ave. Members will have stamps for sale or trade.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/14/1986	Philatelist Shares Hobby With Young Collectors That small piece of paper in your hand — the one with a picture on one side and some glue on the other — can do a lot more than get a letter through the mail, from one point to another. The phenomenon of the mail stamp has fascinated millions of people since the beginning of its use. The fascination continues, and values of stamps increase. While the majority of postmarked stamps may sell for a few cents, the One Cent Mauritus — an oH stamp from an obscure island in the South Pacific-fetched W34,«N when It was last auctioned. In the United States alone, the US. Postal Service estimates that there are 22 million stamp coDec-tors. The American Philatelic Society boasts 54,000 members. And locally, the Asheville Stamp Chib has 41 active members. One of those members is Harold McCormick, a resident of West Asheville. Eight feet of his bookshelves at home hold volumes of stamps collected over a quartercentury. And he’s still collecting. “The pot at the end of the rainbow for a stamp collector is to collect them all,” he said “But that has not been possible since around 1920. Before then, you could have probably done it, but now every country in the world is producing stamps. Some of them are producing many more stamps than the U.S. is. In fact, stamps are sometimes one of the biggest revenue producers in a few of the smaller countries.” McCormick didn’t mean to be- come a philatelist “I thought it would be a good bobby for my oldest boy, about 25 years ago. He was in junior high school then. But he discovered girts and forgot about stamps. You girls have ruined a lot of good stamp collections,” he added with a laugh. “Then I started my second son on stamp collecting and he too discovered girls. So .. I was left with two unfinished stamp books, and I took it up myself.” McCormick has enjoyed the hobby for 25 years, concentrating on U.S. and Japanese stamps. McCormick, who is retired from Ford Motor Company, has shared his stamp expertise with young people, encouraging them to take up the bobby and its satisfaction. “Young people are capable of much more than we think,” he said. “If we give them a chance and some encouragement, they’D surprise you The trick is to show them what fun it is but avoid telling them they’D learn anything But they do learn. If you get a stamp and it’s attractive and got a fella’s picture on it, you’ll find yourself looking him up to find out who he is. Then you’D remember that information, and you’ve learned something.” McCormick works with two Ben Franklin chibs for young stamp collectors. They are at Christ School in Arden and Red Oak School near Weaverville. The Red Oak club includes students in grades four through seven, The 51 students involved take the shoe boxes of stamps that McCormick brings them and develop their own collections. The dub at Christ School is for high school students. McCormick said the AsheviDe Stamp Chib invites the public to its big annual show, “Ashepex 84″ which will be held May 17-18 at the National Guard Armory on Brevard Road. Stamp enthusiasts from various backgrounds and careers wiD be showing their coDections. Red Oak School’s stamp club will be among the participants. The AsheviDe Stamp Club meets the third Monday of each month at the First Congregational Church in Asheville and welcomes new collectors, said McCormick. “There’s no special kind of person who collects stamps,” he said. “It depends on the person, like Rosie Greer enjoying needlepoint. You can’t stereotype people with hobbies.”	Asheville Citizen Times
5/16/1986	Asheville Stamp Club Ashepex ’86’ Stamp Show and Bourse May 17th & 18th, 10 am to 5:00 pm. *U.S. Postal Service Booth *Stamp Collection Displays *15 Stamp Dealers *Statue of Liberty Cachet. North Carolina National Guard Amory Brevard Road, Hwy. 191 at I-240. Free admission & parking	Asheville Citizen Times
5/28/1986	Young Stamp Collectors Win Awards – Red Oak Elementary School’s Benjamin Franklin Stamp Club won honors in the junior division of the Asheville Stamp Club’s recent show at the National Guard Armory. Red Oak students won the three top prizes in the judging of entries by young stamp collectors. Darrell Lunsford won first place for his four sets of stamps on American architecture. Second place went to Jolene Fox for her commemorative stamps of 1976. The third place winner was Judy Marier, who collected old stamped post cards from the early 1900s. Marilyn Campbell is the faculty advisor for Red Oak’s stamp club, which had 40 pages of displays in the show, representing the efforts of 37 students.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/14/1987	Asheville Stamp Club Announces…ASHEPEX – 1987 Innsbruck Mall-(Old Hallmark Restaurant) Saturday 9 am – 6 pm – May 16, 1987, Sunday 9 am – 5 pm – May 17, 1987. Free Admission to public…Bourse for collectors, displays, frames, games, Stamp Bingo, Electronic Quiz Games. MORE MORE MORE !	Asheville Citizen Times
5/15/1987	Free Stamps (10) & Free Baseball Cards (2) to all boys & girls 15 and under at Innsbruck Mall – 2nd Floor May 16 & 17. Stop at H.H.H. Stamp Company’s Tables on Sat. & Sun. 9-5 each day. This stamp show sponsored by Asheville Stamp Club.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/16/1987	Stamp Club Sets Expo – The Asheville Stamp Club will sponsor its annual Asheville Philatelic Expo Saturday and Sunday at the upper level of the Insbruck Mall. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/26/1988		Asheville Citizen Times
6/7/1988	School’s Stamp Club Attends Ceremony In South Carolina – Members of Red Oak School’s Benjamin Franklin Stamp Club attended the First Day of Issue ceremony of the South Carolina Statehood Commemorative Stamp recently in Columbia, S.C. The cermonies were held in the House of Representatives Chamber of the South Carolina Statehouse. This is the first 1988 commemorative stamp issued with the new First-Class postage rate. The members of Red Oak’s stamp club had been working on their philatelic ratings all year in anticipation of attending the ceremony. The students enjoyed the festivities accompanying the ceremony. Robert Fisher, postmaster of Columbia, presided. Remarkd were made by S.C. Governor Carroll A. Campbell, and the students were delighted to be able to get the autograph of the designer of the stamp, North Carolina artist Bob Timberlake. The Red Oak Stamp Club is the only active Benjamin Franklin Club in Western North Carolina. Its members traditionally enter stamp displays in ASHEPEX, the Asheville Stamp Club’s annual stamp shown in Asheville. This year, the 16 fifth-graders entered more than 45 pages of displays. The following Red Oak students won awards: first place Rhonda Parker for her display of first day covers; second place, Scott McCarthy for a display of space stamps; third place, Candy Roberts for a display on stamps of the Orient; fourth place, Jay Kanekoa for an orchid stamp display. Marilyn Campbell serves as faculty adviser for the Red Oak Stamp Club.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/8/1988	School’s Stamp Club Attends Ceremony In South Carolina Members of Red Oak School’s Benjamin Franklin Stamp Club attended the First Day of Issue ceremony of the South Carolina Statehood Commemorative Stamp recently in Columbia, S.C. The ceremonies were held in the House of Representatives Chamber of the South Carolina Statehouse. This is the first 1988 commemorative stamp issued with the new First-Class postage rate. The members of Red Oak’s stamp club had been working on their philatelic ratings all year in anticipation of attending the ceremony. The students enjoyed the festivities accompanying the ceremony. Robert Fisher, postmaster of Columbia, presided. Remarks were made by S.C. Governor Carroll A. Campbell, and the students were delighted to be able to get the autograph of the designer of the stamp, North Carolina artist Bob Timberlake. The Red Oak Stamp Club is the only active Benjamin Franklin Club in Western North Carolina. Its members traditionally enter stamp displays in ASHEPEX, the Asheville Stamp Club’s annual stamp show in Asheville. This year, the 16 fifth-graders entered more than 45 pages of displays. The following Red Oak students won awards: first place, Rhonda Parker for her display of first day covers; second place, Scott McCarthy for a display of space stamps; third place, Candy Roberts for a display on stamps of the Orient; fourth place, Jay Kanekoa for an orchid stamp display. Marilyn Campbell serves as faculty adviser for the Red Oak Stamp Club.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/3/1988	ROBERT J. HOLT, SR. ROBERT J. HOLT, SR 68, died Thursday night in an Asheville hospital. A native of Staten Inland, New York, he was the son of the late Ralph O. and May Fay Holt. He was a resident of Buncombe County for the past 26 years, and a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church. During World War II, he served as an aerial photographer for the U.S. Army Air Force. He was former chief of the USDA Eastern Aerial Photography laboratory, retiring in 1975. In the Asheville community, he was active with the United Way, past president of Asheville Federal Executive Association, past president Board of Directors for the AFE Federal Credit Union, and past president Asheville USDA Club. After retiring he served as an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau, a member of Asheville Stamp Club, and president of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, Asheville Chapter 156. He is a member of the Blue Ridge Chapter of the SAR, Mayflower Society, OBCGS, N.E.G. H.S., and Essex Society of Genealogists. Surviving are his wife, Glady M. Holt; a son, Robert J. Holt, Jr.; a daughter, Barbara Allison; and two granddaughters, Beth and Mary Kate Allison.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/17/1988	Stamp Club to Meet – The Ashville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Botanical Gardens Building, 151 Weaver Boulevard, Asheville. The fall membership drive will be officially announced and a slate of officers will be presented. The public is invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/19/1989	Asheville Stamp Club To Meet At Gardens – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the UNCA Botanical Gardens. A program on geography and stamps will be given after a trading period.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/28/1989	10,000 Baseball Cards Free – To be given away with purchase of selected sets, boxes, packs & singles. Where: Holiday Inn Airport. When: Sunday, May 28 10:00 – 4:30. Who: HHH Stamp Co. This show sponsored by Asheville Stamp Club *Free Admission*	Asheville Citizen Times
5/30/1989	Stamp Display – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its 18th annual Asheville Stamp Exhibit, known as ASHPEX, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Holiday Inn Airport. For more information call Carl W. Greene at 254-3317.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/13/1989	Stamp Club Wins Awards – Red Oak School’s Benjamin Franklin Stamp Club entered 42 pages of stamp displays for competition at ASHEPEX, the Asheville Stamp Club’s annual stamp show. Al of the student’s collected the stamps for each display, identified the stamps and country of origin, arranged the stamps on a display sheet and enhanced the page with original artwork and graphics. The displays were judged by members of the Asheville Stamp Club and the post office. Nicholas Cutshall won first place for his three-page display on U.S. air mail stamps. Second place went to Michael Webb forhis page of stamps from the Soviet Union. The third place winner was Jason Coman for his collection of special delivery stamps. There was a tie for fourth place between Tim Rice for his display of flowers of Poland stamps and Brandon Rice for his sports stamps from Czechoslovakia. Red Oak’s stamp club was composed of fifth-graders. The faculty sponsor was Marilyn Campbell, media coordinator.	Asheville Citizen Times

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5/13/1990	Asheville, NC Stamp Show – Saturday, May 19, 10 AM – 6 PM, Sunday, May 20, 10 AM – 4:40 PM, Comfort Suites Hotel, Free Admission, Free Parking, I-26 (Exit #2) and NC Hwy #191 (Brevard Road) beside Biltmore Mall on Brevard Road, Asheville, North Carolina, Sponsored by Asheville Stamp Club.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/13/1991	Asheville Stamp Club Meeting Planned – Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Jan. 20 in Room 103 Elm Building at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. The program topics will be “Discussion of Scott’s Catalog Pricing” and Items Brought Down from the Attic.” The club meets the third Sunday of each month. Officers are Gill Elliott, president; Harold McCormack, vice president; Louis Blodgett, secretary; Willie Butler, treasurer; Joan Roderick, publicity chairman. Anyone interested in stamp collecting is invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/30/1991	Community Service – The Asheville Stamp Club will have a show and trade sesscion on April 27 and 28 at the Comfort Suites, 890 Brevard Road. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. All interested philatelists are invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/13/1991	Asheville Stamp Club will meet on Sunday – Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greenware Etc, 697-D Haywood Road. Harold McCormick will present a program on “Stamp Printing Methods Indentified and Illustrated.” Anyone interested in philately is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/17/1991	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greenware Etc., 697D Haywood Road. A program from the Smithsonian Institution titled “Trolley Car Mail” will be presented by Harold McCormick. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/14/1991	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greenware Etc., 697-D Haywood Road. Harold McCormick will present a Smithsonian program, “Mail By the Seat of Their Pants.” Officers will be elected. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/26/1991	Stamp Club Names Leaders – The Asheville Stamp Club has named officers for the 1992 year. They include Dr. Oliver Cope, president; Howard McCormick, vice president; Lewis Blodgett, secretary; Willie Butter, treasurer; Joan Roderick, publicity chairman, and Mac Harris, American Philatelic Society representative. The club provides opportunities for beginning and veteran stamp collectors to meet and engage in the hobby. Meetings feature lecture and slide programs, exchange and purchase of stamps, informal discussions about stamp collecting, auctions, advice, use of the club library and other aspects of collecting. The club sponsors two stamp shown. The group meets on the third Sunday of each month at Greenware Etc., 697-D Haywood Road in West Asheville. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/14/1992	Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greenware Etc., 697D Haywood Road. Those who atten are asked to bring stamps for a stamp auction directed by Harold McCormick. Interested people are invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/11/1992	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greeware Etc., 697D Haywood Road. People interested in stamp collecting are invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/12/1992	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greenware Etc., 697-D Haywood Road. Mac Harris will present the program. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/9/1992	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Clulb will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greenware, 697D Haywood Road. Newton McKinney will present a program on “The 2 cent Washington.” Plans will be made for the Ashepex Stamp Show to be held April 25-26 at the Holiday Inn West. Dealers from North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky will participate. The public is invited to the meeting and the show.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/23/1992	Stamp Club plans show Saturday – The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its annual stamp show and bourse Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn West. Dealers from North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia will attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/12/1992	Stamp Club meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greeware Etc., 697D Haywood Road. Lewis Blodgett will discuss his collection. The meeting is open to the public.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/15/1992	Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet Sunday at Greenware Etc., 697D Haywood Road, at 3 p.m. The program will feature “Show and Tell”. Each member is encouraged to bring an unusual philatelic item. All stamp collectors are welcome.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/17/1992	Stamp Club to meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at Greenware Etc., 697D Haywood Road. Vernon Stroupe, a published authority on North Carolina postal history, will be speaker. The public is invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/13/1992	Stamp Club Meeting: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday at the home of Newton McKinney, 29 Davenport Road. Members are asked to present unusual covers from their collections. The group will make plans for Ashepex ’92, a Christmas show and bourse to be held Dec. 5-6 at Holiday Inn West. Hours for the two day show are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Exhibits and dealers will be featured.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/4/1992	Stamp Club Exhibit. The Asheville Stamp Club will hold its annual exhibit and bourse Saturday and Sunday at Holiday Inn West. Hours Saturday are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The club will give gree stamps to beginning collectors. There is no admission charge.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/10/1992	Robert G. Fortune, recipient of first Sondley Award, dies at 88 Robert Greer Fortune Jr., 88, of 54 Midland Drive, died Tuesday, Dee. 8, in a local hospital. He had been a division manager with CP&L and retired in 1969 after 33 years of service. He was a member of the company’s Pioneer Club. He graduated from North Carolina State College in electrical engineering. He was past president of the American Business Club, past master of Mt. Herman Lodge with 50 years in the Scottish Rite, past president of the Engineers Club of Western North Carolina, past president of the Asheville Stamp Club, and past president of the Board of United Social Services. He was. a member, former deacon and Sunday school teacher at First Baptist Church. Fortune was perhaps best known for his presentation, “Ashe ville of Yesteryear”; a slide show full of pictures and facts that recreated the history of Asheville. He had presented his show to various clubs and organizations in the area hundreds of times. He was regarded as the local expert on Asheville and was often consulted for historical purposes. In 1988, he was presented with the first annual Sondley Award by the Historic Resources Commission of Asheville. The award is given to the person who instills the greatest appreciation of history in the community. A lifelong resident of Asheville, he was the son of the late R.G. Fortune and Nellie Boyst. He was married to the late Mildred Patterson who died in 1988. He is survived by two sisters, Gladys Worley of Asheville and Mrs. R.P. Majors of Charlotte. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Riverside Cemetery. Dr. John Hewitt will officiate. Memorials may be made the Children’s Department of First Baptist Church or Eliada Home. Williams Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/16/1993	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Main Post Office at 591 Brevard Road. Art Lockhart will speak on maps and globes on stamps.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/14/1994	Obituary – Clarence J. Sumner, Sr. – Clarence J. Sumner Sr., 80, of 26 Montview Drive, died Tuesday, April 12, 1994, in a local health care center. A native of Buncombe County, he was the son of the late J.S. and Doshie Williams Sumner. He attended Wake Forest University and retired from Railway Express Co. Sumner was a past president of Asheville Stamp Club and was a member of Golden K. Kiwanas Club. He was also past state chairman of the N.C. State Legislative Commitee of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks. He was a member and former chairman of the building team at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Gladys Kimbirle Sumner; daughter, Ladonna Bowers of Seatle, Wash.; sons, C. J. Sumner Jr. of Candler and Michael Sumner of Asheville; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Groce Funeral Home with the Revs. Clay Morgan and Robert G. Tuttle officiating. Burial will be in Lewis Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m.. Thursday at the funeral home.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/14/1994	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Clulb will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday in the P.E.D.C. room at the Post Office on Brevard Road. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/16/1994	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet in the PEDC room at the Post Office in Brevard Road at 2 p.m. Sunday. There will be a tour of the mail processing center. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/13/1994	Stamp Club Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Brevard Road post office.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/20/1994	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday in the PEDC room at the Brevard Post Office.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/16/1994	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 20, in the U.S. Post Office, 591 Brevard Road. Officers for the new year will be elected. The program will be provided by Susan Albro of the U.S.P.S. The club will sponsor a stamp show and exhibit on Dec. 3 and 4 at the Comfort Suites Motel near the Biltmore Square Mall.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/30/1994	Stamp Show – The Asheville Stamp Coub will hold its annual stamp show and sale from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, and from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in the Comfort Suites Hotel, Interstate 26 and Brevard Road. The club’s evening meeting will be at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, in the Postal Facility on Brevard Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/12/1995	Stamp Club Meeting – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Jan. 22 at the Post Office on Brevard Road. The public is invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/18/1995	Asheville Stamp Club To Meet – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, in the Post Office on Brevard Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/16/1996	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 Larchmont Drive. Activities include an auction and attendees may bring up to four items to auction. Call 258-0843	Asheville Citizen Times
6/14/1996	Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Dr. Call 277-1518.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/12/1997	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 27 Larchmont Road. Public is invited. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/17/1997	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the North Asheville Community Center, 27 Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/16/1997	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center at Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/11/1997	Asheville Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center at 227 Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/31/1997	DR. RUDOLPH S. WILSHER A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Rudy Wllsher, 74, died Saturday, Aug. 23, 1997, at his home In Asheville. He earned his bachelor’s degree In chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded his masters and doctorate degrees In organic chemistry from the University of Delaware. He had been a research chemist for 36 years, working primarily In the plastics field. He was best known for his developments in contact lenses and intraocular lenses used as implants for cataract surgeries. He was listed in Who’s Who In American Men of Sciences, authored a number of technical papers on plastics, and held several U.S. and foreign patents. Rudy was a decorated veteran of World War II, having served as a bombadler with the 14th U.S. Air Force (Flying Tigers) In China. Since his retirement In 1988, he served as an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at both the University of North Carolina at Asheville and the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, as well as doing private consulting In the plastics industry. He was a member of the Unitarian Unlversalist Church of Asheville, the American Chemical Society, and the Asheville Stamp Club. He is survived by his wife, Jo Anderson Wilsher; his three children, Leslie Wilsher-Freed, David Wilsher and Alicia Wilsher-Eller; and his three stepchildren, Laura Anderson, Dana Anderson and Daniel Anderson. He is also survived by six grandchildren, Jonathan and Benjamin Wilsher-Freed, Clara Wilsher-Beyer, Nichole Wilsher, James and Josh Eller; and one stepgranddaughter, Arnie Rose Anderson. A memorial service In celebration of Rudy’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Unitarian Unlversalist Church of Asheville, One Edwin Place, Asheville. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Unitarian Unlversalist Church of Asheville, One Edwin Place, Asheville, N.C. 28801, or to Mountain Area Hospice, P.O. Box 16, Asheville, N.C. 28802. Penland & Sons Funeral Home, Swannanoa, is In charge of arrangements.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/18/1997	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the North Asheville Community Center, 27 Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/11/1997	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center at 27 Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/16/1998	Asheville Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/14/1998	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet a 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 27 Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/18/1998	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 27 Larchmont Road	Asheville Citizen Times
5/12/1998	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 27 Larchmont St.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/22/1998	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. every third Sunday of each month at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Drive. All interested are invited to attend. Call Joan Roderick at 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/10/1998	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club meets the third Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. Because of a scheduling conflict this month’s meeting will be on Oct. 18 at the East Asheville Community Center, 906 Tunnel Road, Asheville. All interested philatelists are invited to attend. Call Joan Roderick at 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/16/1999	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 Larchmont Drive. All interested are invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/19/1999	Asheville Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 East Larchmont Drive. The club meets the third Sunday of every month. All interested are invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
4/15/1999	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 East Larchmont Drive. The group meets the third Sunday of each month. The meeting is open to the public.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/16/1999	Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Drive. All interested are invited to attend.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/10/1999	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 15, at the North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. The club meets the third Sunday of each month. All interested are invited to attend. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/14/1999	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. The club meets the third Sunday of each month. All interested are invited to attend. For more information, call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/16/1999	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Nov. 21 at the North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All interested are invited to attend. The group meets the third Sunday of each month. For information, call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/14/1999	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Dec. 19 at the North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All those interested are invited to attend. The group meets the third Sunday of each month. For details, call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/17/1999	Asheville Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All those interested are invited to attend. The group meets the third Sunday of each month. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times

2/17/2000	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 East Larchmont Drive.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/18/2000	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. the third Sunday of each month at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All stamp collectors are invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
5/19/2000	Asheville Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/16/2000	Asheville Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All stamp collectors invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/16/2000	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. today at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/18/2000	Asheville Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All stamp collectors are invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/15/2000	Asheville Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/18/2000	Asheville Stamp Clug – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 Larchmont Road. The club meets every 3rd Sunday of the month. All stamp collectors are invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/19/2001	Asheville Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at 37 E. Larchmont Road. All stamp collectors are invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/20/2001	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All stamp collectors are invited.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/17/2001	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. today at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/16/2001	Stamp Club: The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road, Asheville. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/17/2001	Stamp Club – The Asheville Stamp Club will meet at 2 p.m. at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road, Asheville. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/18/2002	Asheville Stamp Club: Meets at 2 p.m. at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 Larchmont Road. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/15/2002	Asheville Stamp Club: 2 p.m. at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E Larchmont Road. All stamp collectors are invited to attend. For information, call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
3/14/2002	Stamp Show – From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Comfort Suites, 890 Brevard Road, Asheville. Call (704)527-3805.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/16/2002	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All stamp collectors are invited. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/10/2002	Stamp Club To Meet Sunday – Asheville – The Asheville Stamp Club meets the third Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. The next meeting is Sunday. All stamp collectors are invited to attend. For futher information, call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/21/2002	Stamp Show – From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Comfort Suites Inn, 890 Brevard Road, beside Biltmore Square Mall. Free admission and parking. Call (704) 527-3805 or e-mail [email protected] for more information.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/21/2002	Asheville Stamp Club – Meeting begins at 2 p.m. at North Asehville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. Call 258-0843 for more information.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/18/2002	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. the third Sunday of each month at the North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/17/2002	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All stamp collectors are invited to attend. For further information, call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/18/2002	Asheville Stamp Club: Meets at 2 p.m. at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 Larchmont Road off Merrimon Avenue. For more information, Call Sonja Richards at 627-3039.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/14/2002	Asheville Stamp Club meets at 1:30 p.m. for Christmas party lunch at Beaver Lake Steak and Seafood Restaurant, 1435 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Call 252-4343. No reservations are needed, just show up.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/16/2003	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road. All collectors are invited. Call 258-0843.	Asheville Citizen Times
2/13/2003	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road, off Merrimon Avenue. For more information, call Sonja Richards 627-3039.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/13/2003	Stamp Club to meet Sunday: Asheville – The Asheville Stamp Club will have its next meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road, off Merrimon Avenue. Meetings are regularly scheduled on the third Sunday of the month. For more information contact Sonja Richards at 627-3039.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/17/2003	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road, off Merrimon Avenue. For more information, call 627-3039 or 274-3804.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/21/2003	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. the third Sunday at North Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road, off Merrimon Avenue. Call Sonja Richards at 627-3039 or Richard’s Stamp Shop at 274-3804.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/18/2004	Signed, sealed, delivered – The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. today at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, in the Trillium Room, Main Building, 1617 Hendersonville Road, opposite Walmart.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/19/2005	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. the third Sunday at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, The Trillium Room in the main building, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Call 274-3804.	Asheville Citizen Times
6/1/2007	June 17: Asheville Stamp Club. Stamp collecting for all ages. The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. in the community center of the Deerfield Epicopal Retirement Community at 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Call Sonja Richards at 627-3039 or Steve Zarko at 692-1796 for more information.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/1/2007	July 15 – Asheville Stamp Club: Stamp collecting for all ages. The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. in the community center of the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Call Sonja Richards at 627-3039 or Steve Zarko at 692-1796 for more information.	Asheville Citizen Times
8/1/2007	Aug. 19 – Asheville Stamp Club – Stamp collecting for all ages. Meets at 2 p.m. in the community center of the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community at 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Call Sonja Richards at 627-3039 or Steve Zarko at 692-1796 for more information.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/20/2007	Asheivlle Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. in the Community Center of the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Call 627-3039 or 692-1796.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/14/2007	Asheville Stamp Club – Meets at 2 p.m. in the Community Center of the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Call 627-3039 or 692-1796.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/17/2007	Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. in the Community Center of the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Call 627-3039 or 692-1796.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/11/2008	Postage Stamp and Postcard Show: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Comfort Suites, 890 Brevard Road, Asheivlle. Nine southeastern dealers and Asheville Stamp Club, buy, sell, trade postage stamps and postcards from all over the world. Supplies for the collector also available. Free. Call Richard W. Canupp at 274-3804 or e-mail [email protected].	Asheville Citizen Times
8/16/2008	Asheville Stamp Club: 2 p.m. , Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Stamp collecting for all ages. Meets third Sunday each month. Call 692-9550	Asheville Citizen Times
8/17/2008	Asheville Stamp Club – 2 p.m., Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Stamp collecting for all ages. Meets third Sunday each month. Call 692-9550.	Asheville Citizen Times
9/4/2008	Stamp Club Meets – The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. the third Sunday each month at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. For more information, call 692-9550.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/10/2008	Postage Stamp and Postcard Show: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Comfort Suites, 890 Brevard Road, Asheivlle. Nine southeastern dealers and Asheville Stamp Club, buy, sell, trade postage stamps and postcards from all over the world. Supplies for the collector also available. Free. Call Richard W. Canupp at 274-3804 or e-mail [email protected]	Asheville Citizen Times
10/16/2008	Stamp Club Meets – The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. the third Sunday each month at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. For more information, call 692-9550.	Asheville Citizen Times
10/18/2008	Asheville Stamp Club – 2 p.m. Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc. 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Stamp collecting for all ages. Meets third Sunday each month. Call 692-9550.	Asheville Citizen Times
11/20/2008	Stamp Club Meets – The Asheville Stamp Club meets at 2 p.m. the third Sunday each month at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. For more information, call 692-9550.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/20/2008	Asheville Stamp Club – 2 p.m., monthly by day of week until Dec. 31, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc. 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Stamp collecting for all ages. Meets third Sunday each month at 2 p.m. Call 692-9550	Asheville Citizen Times
12/21/2008	Asheville Stamp Club – 2 p.m. monthly by day of week until Dec. 31, Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc., 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Stamp collecting for all ages. Meets third Sunday each month at 2 p.m. Call 692-9550.	Asheville Citizen Times
12/31/2008	DR. OLIVER B. COPE ASHEVILLE — Dr. Oliver B. Cope, 92, died at Deerfield Retirement Community in Asheville on Monday, December 29, 2008. He was husband of the late Patty Olivia Jones Cope, formerly of Mount Olive. Bom June 16, 1916 in San Francisco, Calif., he was the son of the late Elmo and Marguerite Cope. He was very active in sports in high school, having lettered in four sports. He was also a member of the Boy Scouts of America and became an Eagle Scout. Dr. Cope attended” Stanford University and received A.B., MA, and Ph.D. degrees in Biology. After Pearl Harbor, he went on active duty in the U.S. Navy as an entomologist doing malaria control and epidemiology in North Carolina, New Guinea, and the Philippines. After the War, he participated in the Naval Reserve and retired with the rank of Captain in the Medical Service Corps. Following the War, he did research for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the effects of pesucides on fish. After retirement he became a technical editor for1 the Colorado division of Wildlife, and a consulatant for the Deriver Public Library. He moved to Asheville, N.C. in 1981. As a student, he was president of the Stanford Glee Club. In Asheville, he was president of the Rhododendron Civitan Club and the Asheville Stamp Club. Professionally, he was a member of Sigma Xi, the American Society for the Advancement of Science, the Entomological Society of America, lite American Fisheries Society, the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists, and served as editor of a publication of Fish-eiy Research Biologists. Dr. Cope taught at Stanford University, the University of California, Utah State University, and the University of Missouri. He is survived by a daughter, Carol Breeding and husband. Dennis; a son, Brian Cope and wife, Marlys, al) of Littleton, Colorado; as well as numerous grandchildren. great-grandchldren, and great-great-grandchildren. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 3, at Tyndall Funeral Home in Mount Olive. Officiating will be Dr. H. Dennis Draper Jr., minister of the First United Methodist Church of Mount Olive. Interment will be in Wayne Memorial Park with full military honors. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday during the hour prior to the service.	Asheville Citizen Times
7/24/2011	JOHN FREDERIC CRESS ASHEVILLE – John Frederic Cress, 90, of Asheville, NC died July 16th of natural causes, surround-ed by his loving family, at the John F. Keever Solace Center in Asheville. John had been an Asheville resident since 1979. Born September 30, 1920 in Toledo, Ohio, Mr. Cress graduated with a degree in French from Colgate University where he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. His hopes to continue his studies in French at the University of Paris, la Sorbonne, were interrupted by the war. During WWII, Mr. Cress served in the U.S. Army with the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade of the 592d Engineer Regiment in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Admiralty Islands, the southern Philippines and Luzon. He was decorated with the Victory Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon with 4 Bronze Battle Stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with 2 Bronze Battle Stars, and 5 Overseas Service Bars. He received a Bronze Arrowhead and 1st Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster on September 2, 1945. A combat injury left him nearly totally deaf. After the war, Mr. Cress entered the University of Michigan Law School, leaving after one year to join the family business, Buchanan Steel Products, in Buchanan, MI. After 31 years, John retired to Asheville, NC, and dedicated his retirement to the pursuit of his interest in postal history, specializing in Australasia and early air mail. He was honored with numerous international awards for excellence in exhibition, most recently the American Philatelic Society Medal of Excellence. John was a passionate freshwater and deep sea fisherman and a formidable cribbage, bridge and poker player. Mr. Cress was a Director of First Step Farm, in the Pisgah Mountains of Candler, NC; a member of the Royal Philatelic Society [UK] and the Society of Australasian Specialists; a former president of the Downtown Club of Asheville, a member of the Asheville Stamp Club. Mr. Cress was predeceased by his wife of 30 years, the former Catherine (“Tat”) Schneider, in 1977. He is survived by his three children, Jean Gardiner (Charles) of Eastmanville, MI; Ellie Ferguson (Bruce) of Saunderstown, RI; and Nick Cress of Woodbury, MN, and by his three grandchildren, Ruth Cress of Woodbury, MN; Andrea Cress of Minneapolis, MN and Trevor Cress of Culver City, GA; his nephews, John Preston of Miami Beach, FL; and Dr. Thomas E. Preston of Stony Brook, NY; and his nieces, Dr. Susan Root of Milwaukee, WI and Sarah Lithicum of Houston, TX. He was preceded in death by his sister, Harriet Preston, of St. Joseph, MI, in 1987. A Memorial Service with Military Honors will be held at noon Friday September 23, 2011, at Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery, 962 Old US 70 Highway, Black Mountain, NC 28711, followed immediately by a reception at Crowfields, 1745 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC, 28803. A dedication to Mr. Cress will be held at noon Saturday, September 24, 2011 at the Annual Pig Picking at the First Step Farm, 215 Black Oak Cove Road, Candler, NC 28715, to which the public is warmly welcome. Those who would like to make a donation in John’s memory may con-tribute to First Step Farm of WNC, Inc., P. O. Box 1450, Candler, NC 28715 or to a charity of their choice.	Asheville Citizen Times
1/13/2019	DEERFIELD – The Rev. Dr. Edward O. de Bary, 80, died peacefully at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Center on January 8. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, he was the son of the late Edmund T. and Anne Marie de Bary. He is survived by his wife, Marcia Huff de Bary, a sister Anne Marguerite Rountree (Richard) of Newport News, VA and brother Edmund de Bary (Barbara) of Richmond, VA. The de Bary family came to the United States in 1948. Edward attended high school in Kempsville, VA. After graduating from The University of the South in 1961, he served in the US Air Force for four years. In 1965, he entered the School of Theology at the University of the South and graduated in 1968. In 1984 he completed a STD at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He served Episcopal congregations in VA and MS. In 1982, he moved to Sewanee, TN to help develop and later direct the Education for Ministry program, a foundational course of theological education for lay people worldwide. After moving to Deerfield in 2004, Dr. de Bary was actively involved with the Democratic Party of Buncombe County, Jewish Family Services, the Asheville Choral Society, Asheville Lyric Opera, and the Asheville Stamp Club. A memorial service will be held at 2:00pm, Saturday, January 19 at St. Giles Chapel in Deerfield. Memorial gifts maybe made to the Deerfield Residence Fund 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville NC 28803 or Jewish Family Services of WNC, 2 Doctors Park, Suite E, Asheville, NC 28801.	Asheville Citizen Times

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