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Volume 70 No. 10 October, 2024

Minutes of the 1268th Meeting

The 1268th meeting of the Chicago Coin Club was called to order by President John Riley at 6:45PM CDT, Wednesday September 11, 2024. This was an online and in-person meeting held at the Chicago Bar Association. Attendance at the meeting in person was 19 members and one guest, and online attendance of 19 members, for a total of 39.

President John Riley opened the meeting with remembrances of the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States, on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary. Several club members paid tribute to those lost, as they recounted memories of friends and that day.

Club Meeting Minutes and Treasurer’s Report

The August meeting session I and II minutes were approved as published in the Chatter, both in print and on the CCC website.

Treasurer Elliott Krieter presented the treasurer’s reports for the July and August periods. July period recorded revenue of $2,500.00 (banquet tickets and sponsorship) and expenses of $0, for a period total of $2,500.00 August period recorded revenue of $4,235.00 (banquet tickets and sponsorship, dues) and expenses of $9,707.48 (Chatter expense, ANA expense, CCC Banquet, CBA room rent), for a period total of -$5,472.48.

Both reports were approved by the membership.

New Members

Secretary Scott McGowan completed the second membership application readings for three individuals: Lewis H. Heidenrich of Plantation, Florida, Aditya Ashtekar of Wheeling, Illinois, and Olivia Henderson of Chicago. The club voted to approve all three. The first membership application reading was completed for George Marks of Chicago, a collector of US coins. Four additional membership applications received during the ANA show were held until the applicants are in attendance at a club meeting.

Old Business

  1. President John Riley thanked the donors who sponsored the CCC/NYNC banquet and/or donated materials to the CCC archives during the August ANA convention, namely:
  2. Rich Lipman and Deven Kane reminded there is limited capacity for the annual November club auction. Email Rich or Deven if you have items to be considered.
  3. December banquet at Capri Italian Restaurant in Palos Heights, Illinois; cost is $45. Make your reservations by sending payment to the Club PO Box, or Zelle to treasurer.chicagocoinclub@gmail.com.
  4. Committee report: Special Projects committee will meet at 6pm on Wednesday September 18 via Webex.

New Business

  1. A call for a proposal and vote to approve funds from the club treasury to reimburse club members for ANA convention expenses that were above the ANA stipend. The CCC board voted the approval of $894, an estimate, which required club approval being it was above the $500 board limit. The actual expense calculated to $834.47 submitted by the treasurer. Lyle Daly made the motion to approve, seconded by Bob Leonard, and the club voted to approve.
  2. Mark Wieclaw called for volunteers for the CCC nomination committee, to receive nominations for 2025 club officers. Positions open for nomination are President, First and Second Vice Presidents, and two Director positions. The nomination committee was established as Mark Wieclaw, Rich Lipman, and Bill Burd.
  3. Mark Wieclaw, on behalf of the CCC Medal of Merit committee, announced that the committee of Mark, Deven Kane, and Steve Zitowsky is looking for potential awardees for 2024. Potential awardees would be an individual(s) who exhibits exemplary service and promotion to, and of, the Chicago Coin Club.
  4. Future meeting featured programs are:
  5. Lyle Daly presented to the club a donation, from Robert Rhue, that was received at the club PO Box: a purple award ribbon from the October 30, 1954 CCC annual banquet, given for Excellence in Exhibit. The ribbon will go into the club archives.

Featured Program

Len Augsburger on I Owned a Gobrecht Dollar for Five Minutes.

Show and Tell

Second Vice President Deven Kane announced there were 12 Show and Tell presentations.

Next meeting will be Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 6:45pm at the Chicago Bar Association and online.

President John Riley adjourned the meeting at 8:54pm CDT.

Respectfully Submitted,
Scott A. McGowan, Secretary

Speaker’s Wor[l]d
I Owned a Gobrecht Dollar for Five Minutes

a presentation by Len Augsburger,
to our September 11, 2024 meeting

This story begins in August, 2010 when Midge S., a non-collector in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, discovered an 1836 Gobrecht dollar in her mother’s safety deposit box. Midge knew nothing about coins, so in September she contacted local coin dealer Rich Uhrich who advised slabbing the coin. It came back from PCGS graded PR62. In October, Rich sold the coin at a Philadelphia show; the coin was off to unknown owners and everyone was happy. Until September of 2011.

While Midge was cleaning out the safety deposit box in September, 2011, she found an old letter tucked in the family Bible. The letter, from Sarah K. Sevier to her grandson Robert S. Dunbar, Jr., was dated March 21, 1888 and gave the history of the coin:

“The dollar was given to your mother on one of my visits to the ‘Hermitage,’ the home of General Jackson. The coin was given to your mother by Major R.E.W. Earl who was a friend of General Jackson & member of his household. I believe the dollar was given to Major Earl by General Jackson as the first impression of the Silver dollars made or coined when General Andrew Jackson was President. I have understood there were only a few made perhaps only one dozen, indeed I have been told the Coin Book says there were only six made but I never saw a coin book and don’t know but whether there few or many made. The dollar you have is one of the number and was given to your mother in 1837 when she was an infant, by Major Earl…”

The family had a great letter about a great coin. but no longer had the coin! At this point in the presentation, Len provided background information on Gobrecht Dollars and Presidential Coin Collections.

The Gobrecht Dollars, struck 1836-1839, were part of an overall redesign of the entire US series, first possibly envisioned in 1826. Surviving records are sparse, yet interesting. Mint Director Samuel Moore wrote to John Quincy Adams, “…the design of our dies has been imperfect for many years.” The submitted drawings, for which Gobrecht was paid $100, are lost. Moore solicited details for the designs of the first US coinage from Thomas Jefferson who, as Secretary of State, had overseen the US Mint in the country’s first years; Jefferson remembered no design requirements, other than the desire not to use President Washington.

With little documentation, the coins must speak for themselves. The die emission sequence developed by Dannreuther, Sholly, and Teichman, on the web at http://gobrechtdollars.com/emissionSeq.html, ties the different Gobrecht Dollar varieties and die states to plausible dates The most significant collection is the Korein gift to the American Numismatic Society (over 100 pieces). Eric Krauss’ ANS Money Talks presentation on November 7, 2020 is another effort to better understand when the coins were produced and for what purpose.

Although the early presidents did not collect coins as we do today, they were aware of the coins being produced, and some references to small presidential groups of numismatic material are known. George Washington’s 11-piece silver Comitia Americana medal set is now at the Massachusetts Historical Society, while his Washington Before Boston gold medal now is at the Boston Public Library – this is the first medal conferred by the Continental Congress, to commemorate the British driven from Boston on March 5, 1776.

The collection of John Quincy Adams and descendants was donated by Henry Adams to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1913, and was sold by that society via Stack’s in 1971. Almost all pieces were ancient coins, and specific presidential pedigrees were not given.

Andrew Jackson had acquired a number of pieces during his life, and original documents are known for a few. An article in the April 1872 issue of American Journal of Numismatics gives us some details:

Among the relics at the “Hermitage,” Nashville, Tenn., which formerly belonged to General Andrew Jackson, are a number of coins; among which are a Washington Half Dollar, 1792, and a Pine Tree Two-pence, 1762 [sic, 1662 is intended]. They were presented to General Jackson by Mr. John Guest, Jan. 27, 1837.

General Gates P. Thruston wrote an article for the October 1892 issue of the American Journal of Numismatics:

The writer obtained for his collection a number of coins and medals that originally belonged to the Jackson cabinet. Among them was the “Erie canal medal” in gold … Among the other objects I obtained from the Jackson collection, were two beautiful flying eagle dollars of the year 1836, with the mint luster still untarnished, showing the care with which they had been preserved. According to the label, in the handwriting of Mrs. Jackson, one had been presented by Mr. Patterson [Director] of the Mint, as “one of the first dollars stamped.” The other was presented by Martin Van Buren to a member of the Jackson family, as shown by its label … I also obtained from the same collection, the rare silver piece known as the “Washington [Getz] half dollar.”

Len showed us the page, in a 1925 Wayte Raymond auction catalog of the W.W.C. Wilson sale, of lot 823 where the gold Erie Canal Medal was illustrated and the Jackson provenance was provided. Appearances of the Jackson-Thruston Gobrecht Dollar were listed, starting with the above 1892 AJN and then mentioning the 1910 Lyman Low sale #147 (which also included an Erie Canal medal with case inscribed to Jackson), the 1934 Bluestone sale #13, and the 1992 Bowers & Merena 1/1992 sale by which time it was graded PCGS PR63.

Len also showed a Jackson note, of August 20, 1834, to Mint Treasurer William Findlay acknowledging receipt of the first five-dollar gold piece struck under the new weight standard. Jackson also approved the Gobrecht Dollar design, per a letter, of January 8, 1836, from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Mint Director. Then Len showed coins inscribed with the names of the presenter and recipient: two were presented by Jackson and one was presented to Jackson. Having well presented Jackson’s ties to contemporary US coins and medals, Len returned his attention to Midge’s coin.

In October, 2011, Rich Uhrich introduced Len and Midge, and Midge furnished a scan of the certified coin that she had made before selling the coin. Len searched the Heritage archive for a match. A small mark in the field, next to Liberty’s knee, would aid in making a match, even if the coin were no longer in its original, numbered slab. Soon, Len identified a coin in the FUN 2011 Heritage sale in January; it realized $21,861.50 and provided a better image. Len discussed the coin with Todd Imhof, a Heritage principal, who indicated the coin had resold since the auction, and the current owner did not wish to sell. Len asked Heritage to let him know if the coin became available. The search quietly continued for some years with nothing new.

In October, 2014, Len presented the sad story to the Liberty Seated Collectors Club meeting at a Baltimore coin show. That same afternoon, Len noticed that very coin at the Baltimore show in a dealer’s case. Len subsequently brokered a transaction with Midge, who now has the family bible, the letter, and the coin. In March of 2015, the story was published in the Gobrecht Journal, #122.

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Show and Tell

Items shown at our September 11, 2024 meeting,
reported by Deven Kane.

  1. Bob Leonard showed a silver gros of the kingdom of Bosnia, of Stefan Tomaš Ostojĭc who ruled 1443-1461; this coin type was minted 1451-1461. The obverse shows St. Gregory Nazianzus and the reverse shows arms. Purchased at the World“s Fair of Money. Bosnia had quite an extensive coinage in the Middle Ages, almost exclusively in silver, but this seems to be the only type generally available.
  2. Laurence Edwards showed two Canadian Pre-Confederation tokens.
    1. From Prince Edward Island circa 1859, the two sides bear the legends SPEED THE PLOUGH and SUCCESS TO THE FISHERIES. Clift, Wood & Co. of Charlottestown are credited with first importing this token into Prince Edward Island, but not sure who produced this variety.
    2. A piece that is listed in two different catalogs. Many varieties of tokens featuring a bouquet are listed as the “Bouquet Sous” tokens of Lower Canada. Some were produced in Birmingham, England; a few in Montreal; and others at the privately owned mint in Belleville, New Jersey. This piece comes from the Belleville Mint. According to the Canadian catalog, it was prepared for a butcher and hotelier in Belleville, who rejected them. BAS CANADA replaced BELLEVILLE on the bouquet side, and the merchant’s name was changed from T D Seaman to T Duseaman. It is not dated, but comes from 1837. Collectors of US tokens are familiar with the Hard Times Tokens of that period, and this piece is also listed among those. In the Q. David Bowers Guide to HTTs, it is identified as Low-148 (Hard Times Token) and as Breton-670 (Canadian token). “The obverse has an eagle, shield, and 13 stars at the center (showing its origin as an American piece), while the reverse has AGRICULTURE & COMMERCE / BAS CANADA around a bouquet (made for Southern Canada). This curious token is a favorite of just about everybody.” What now is known as Quebec then was called Lower Canada (in English), or Bas Canada (in French).
  3. Noah Graf showed two items on Peace Propaganda and the End of the Roman Denarius.
    1. A silver denarius of Severus Alexander minted in Rome in 227 AD. Weighing 2.80 grams and with a diameter of 19mm, the obverse has a laureate bust of the emperor while the reverse shows a running Pax, holding an olive branch and scepter.
    2. A silver denarius of Gordian III, minted in Rome 241-243 AD. It weighs 2.56 grams and has a diameter of 21mm. The obverse has a laureate bust of the emperor while the reverse shows a standing Laetitia holding a wreath and rudder.
    By the mid-220s AD, the silver content of Rome’s famous Denarius had been debased to around 50% fineness, mostly due to pay for the heavy expense of Rome’s army. The soldier emperor Caracalla had introduced a double denarius coin, valued at two but with the same silver content as one denarius from the time of Marcus Aurelius only 50 years earlier. The larger coin was temporarily discontinued under his immediate and less warlike successors. Severus Alexander, who came to the throne as a teenager, relied heavily on the advice of his mother and a tight-knit group of senatorial advisors and civil servants, and attempted to avoid the heavy costs of foreign wars. On the reverse of his denarius, the divine personification of peace (Pax) holds an olive branch and a scepter, symbolizing not just peace for its own sake but that effective rulership came through peace. Unfortunately, this attitude made Severus Alexander extremely unpopular with the Roman army, and when he sought a truce with raiding Germanic tribes to buy time for a more effective response, the army revolted and murdered him.
    As the chaotic 3rd century progressed, the need to placate the turbulent Roman army led to further silver debasement, and the double denarius was reintroduced in 238 AD. In that same year, Gordian III was raised to the throne, barely at the threshold of legal adulthood, and the same civilian clique that had attempted to steer the government more peacefully under Severus Alexander returned under another near-child emperor. The reverse of this denarius of Gordian III shows the divine personification of “happiness” (Laetitia) holding a triumphal wreath and steering the rudder of a ship, implying that happy times – not war – would steer the ship of state to glory. Soon, however, Gordian III was forced into war by a resurgent Persia. He either died in battle or was also murdered by rowdy troops; his successor bought off the Persians with half a million denarii. After Gordian III, the denarius ceased to be a “regular issue” coin; they do exist for later emperors, but in such small numbers that they were probably only specially minted solely to keep up the bedrock Roman denomination.
  4. Scott McGowan showed two items.
    1. A 2008 token for the 100th anniversary of Oneonta, New York (his home town) featuring the Red Caboose dedicated in 1924 for the founding of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, accompanied by a postcard showing the caboose.
    2. A round architectural bronze building plaque featuring lady liberty with an electric motor at her feet, looking out at a four-smokestack factory. Although it bears neither a date nor any identifying markings, Scot has tentatively tied it to the Aurora Motorworks factory.
  5. Bob Feiler showed two items acquired at the recent ILNA show.
    1. A 1904 Indian cent encasement from the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair. The bell-shaped encasement has the phrase “Keep Me and Never Go Broke” on one side, and “I Bring Good Luck” on the other side.
    2. A 1950 Jefferson Nickel brass encasement from the Jefferson Jubilee and Democratic National Conference of 1950, which was held in Chicago. In addition to the usual ”Good Luck Piece” phrase, this piece also has a “Our Goal Must be Peace For All Time” quote from President Harry S. Truman. Produced by the Cook County Central Democratic Committee. The coin shows extensive wear, likely from long use as a pocket piece.
  6. Brett Irick showed three items – his 15¢ worth, as he put it. All have interesting stories.
    1. An 1829 Half Dime graded MS 64 deep mirror proof like by NGC. A new design was made when coinage of this denomination resumed after a gap of more than 20 years – an example was needed for the laying of the corner stone of the Second US Mint building; also, dignitaries were presented with specimens of the coinage. This coin was not produced on a polished flan, so it cannot be considered a proof – this piece is possibly a presentation piece.
    2. A 1863-S Half Dime in PCGS MS62, in an old green holder – 100,000 were issued. Most entered circulation, with researcher Walter Breen estimating that only 20 to 30 pieces had been set aside.
    3. A 1916 proof Buffalo Nickel – this is a unique variety because hubs were reworked to improve the strike on LIBERTY and the date. Only 600 proof coins were made, along with 600 proof 1¢ coins.
  7. Deven Kane showed items from three eras.
    1. A billon stater from the first century BC, from the mint in the town of Saint-Brieuc. It weighs 6.51 grams and is 22mm in diameter. Deven calls this his first Asterix coin (as in the French comic strip of Asterix and Obelix). As is typical for the Coriosolites, the designs on this coin are very abstract – a human head appears on one side, while the other side has a galloping horse with various items/shapes around it. The Coriosolites were an Armorican people who lived in the current French department of Côtes-d’Armor.
    2. A silver miliaresion from the Constantinople mint of the Byzantine Empire, issued by Constantine VI & Irene (780-797). Irene of Athens was the wife of Emperor Leo IV and regent to their son Constantine VI. Even though she was technically only the regent, she added herself on the coinage and depicted herself as the primary ruler on gold coins. In 790 she was forced to cede power to her son, but by 792 she was back as co-empress. In 797 she led a conspiracy where her supporters gouged out the eyes of her son after which she was proclaimed sole ruler. The unfortunate Constantine VI does not appear to have survived much longer. Her sole rule was the pretext Pope Leo III used to claim that the office of Roman Emperor was vacant and to crown Charlemagne as Emperor. In 802 Irene was overthrown and exiled to Lesbos, and forced to support herself by spinning wool; she died a year later.
    3. Stamps and coins commemorating the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 which sparked World War I. The stamps were issued by the Austria-Hungary Military Post in Bosnia Hercegovina. The letters “k u k” stand for kaiserlich und königlich which is German for Imperial and royal (the Empire of Austria and Kingdom of Hungary).
      1. A 1917 set of three stamps showing the Archduke, the couple, and a concept for a church to commemorate them. The church was never built, and now Saraejvo has a statue of the assasin.
      2. A set of nine war-time stamps of Kaizer Franz Joseph and Emperor Karl, the last Emperor. Deven remembered reading a quote that Karl was a 30 year-old who looked like he was 20 and talked like he was 10. Karl was beatified by the Chruch for his unsuccessful efforts to end the war; he died in exile in 1922, at the age of 34.
      3. A 2004 Austrian 10€ Castle of Artstetten commemorative coin showing that castle on the obverse; the castle is the final resting place of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. The reverse shows the entrance to the crypt of the Hohenberg family; there are two portraits on the left, showing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie. Emperor Franz Joseph I refused to allow them to be interred in the traditional Imperial Crypt at the Capuchin Church, Vienna, because of their morganatic marriage. Arstetten Castle became the Hohenberg family’s primary residence, and remains their private property; parts of the castle are open to the public for visits. The castle also houses the Archduke Franz Ferdinand Museum.
  8. Lyle Daly covered two topics.
    1. Five “star” notes from an ATM! Lyle acquired five crisp uncirculated $20 replacement notes from an ATM in Chase Tower; one had serial number PF12507773*, and four were consecutively numbered PF12507778* through PF12507781*. Apparently the notes with the four skipped serial numbers never made it into the ATM. One of our members sometimes presents banknotes with serial numbers containing important dates in history. 1250AD is the last known reasonable date for the passing of the famous mathematician Leonardo Bonacci. He has come to be known as the “son of Bonacci” or Filial Bonacci, or Fibonacci. The Fibonacci sequence is a pattern that frequently occurs in the natural world and is mimicked by artists. Lyle showed us a curve (similar to a spiral) constructed using the Fibonacci numbers, and then he showed us designs of the $2 and $5 notes of the Educational Series with the curve placed over parts of the notes – some of the notes’ shapes and spacings follow that curve.
    2. A Byzantine “short” gold type set. Lyle already had the Solidus, Tremissis, and Hyperpyron; the Semissis was acquired at the 2024 ANA WFM. Sadly, with the price of gold so high, Lyle paid more for the Semissis than he did for the Solidus. The solidus is of Justinian I (527-565), the semissis is of Heraclius (610-641), the tremissis is of Anastasias I (491-518), and the hyperpyron is of John II (1118-1143).
  9. Tyler Rossi showed a fantasy banknote from 1990, printed in Serbia by the Uzice firm. This is a souvenir from when regions of the country of Yugoslavia were splitting off, forming their own countries. This piece is denominated 1, and other denominations in this series are the 10, 50, and 100; the 1 is rare, while the other denominations are common. The front shows a Serbian general from the 1800s, while the back has a view of the city of Dubrovnik and lists areas that should be part of Serbia. People in other areas of Yugoslavia produced similar pieces, aligned with their own beliefs and hopes.
  10. Melissa Gumm showed a $1 note issued in the State of Ohio by The Franklin Silk Company. The note’s vignettes showcase fields, factories, and Benjamin Franklin. It was created by Rawdon, Wright, & Hatch of New York, which became a major part of the merger that created the American Bank Note Company. Melissa found the Franklin Silk Company to be a hard-to-find entity. The best information came from the history of the building that was supposed to become the Franklin Silk Company, under the guidance of Zenas Kent who issued company scrip – which townspeople would be able to use as a local currency – to fund the project. Mr Kent did not realize the labor necessary to raise silkworms, nor that in winter the worms would die. When the company failed, Mr Kent ensured every citizen was paid back dollar for dollar. The building had many industrial tenants including Franklin Cotton Mills, an Alpaca Mill, a dress factory, and a box factory. Currently it is its most successful as a multi-use building with businesses on the lower level and apartments on the upper levels.
  11. Mark Wieclaw started by showing a 1 Peso and a ½ Real of Guatemala, from late in the 19th century. The coins feature a seated female figure on one side, which reminded Mark of the Seated Liberty coins of the United States. Then Mark showed us two examples of counterstamped coinage of August 10,1894: an 1875 1-peso coin of Chile counterstamped by the dies of a Guatemalan ½ Real dated 1894, and an 1893 1-sol coin of Peru counterstamped by the dies of a Guatemalan ½ Real dated 1894. All above coins are mainly silver, with the mentioned Peso and Sol coins about the size of a US silver dollar.
  12. Joe Boling showed a 1 yen note of Allied military currency used in Okinawa after the occupation (the Ryukyu Islands remained a US trusteeship until 1972). This example is a replacement note from the second printing, produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing with serial numbers in the B block. (The A block notes had been produced by Stecher-Traung, a commercial printer in California.) The serial number is B00052017. Regular notes in the B block have the letter B as both prefix and suffix to the serial number, while replacement notes have a B only as a prefix. This is very rare; Joe knows of maybe five examples. Someone had filled in two of the serial number’s zeros with pencil. The note owner’s father had been an academic test maker and the owner believes that his father filled in the ovals – he considers it to be a direct link back to his father’s post-Navy career. The note was in a stack of otherwise junk-box pieces that Joe examined at a coin club meeting in Indianapolis, and it is staying in the owner’s family.

Reminders:

Our 1269th Meeting

Date: October 9, 2024
Time: 6:45PM CDT (UTC-05:00)
Location: Downtown Chicago
At the Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd or 4th floor meeting room. Please remember the security measures at our meeting building: everyone must be prepared to show their photo-ID and register at the guard’s desk.
Online: For all the details on participating online in one of our club meetings, visit our Online Meeting webpage at www.chicagocoinclub.org/meetings/online_meeting.html. Participation in an online meeting requires some advance work by both our meeting coordinator and attendees, especially first-time participants. Please plan ahead; read the latest instructions on the day before the meeting! Although we try to offer a better experience, please be prepared for possible diifficulties.
Featured Program: James McMenamin — The Ubiquitous “H”
A Numismatic overview of possibly the World’s finest private mint (1850-1980), a coining and metal-working company, once the world’s largest privately-owned mint and producer of coins for many nations including France, Italy, and China, and much else besides during the 19th century: its storied origins; glorious rise; and sad decline.

Important Dates

Unless stated otherwise, our regular monthly CCC Meeting is in downtown Chicago, and also online, on the second Wednesday of the month; the starting time is 6:45PM CT.

October 9 CCC Meeting - Featured Speaker - James McMenamin on The Ubiquitous “H”
November 13 CCC Meeting - Club Auction - no featured speaker
November 20 CCC Board Meeting - online only - contact club secretary for access instructions.
December 11 CCC Meeting - Annual Banquet - details to be announced
January 8 CCC Meeting - Featured Speaker - to be determined

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Club Officers

Elected positions:
John Riley- President
Melissa Gumm- First V.P.
Deven Kane- Second V.P.
William Burd- Archivist
Directors:Ray Dagenais
Mark Wieclaw
Carl Wolf
Steve Zitowsky
Appointed positions:
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Elliott Krieter- Treasurer
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Jeffrey Rosinia- ANA Club Representative

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