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Our New Officers
President: Ken Monson
Vice-President: Fred Liddle
Secretary-Treasurer: Melody Warner
Official Editor: Matilda Haywood
Recorder: Joe D. Diachenko
Executive Judges: Joe Curran, Mike Horvat, Ray Albert
1985 Convention City: Alliance, Ohio
1986 Convention City: New Haven, Conn.
Because of increased mailing, printing, and other expenses attributed to today’s economy, those members of NAPA in attendance to the 109th Convention voted the following changes in the dues structure: Regular, $10; family member, $5; life member, $200.
We had some more visitors: Miriam Dornbirer, Clare and Dalton Brundson, John and Dorothy Dingman, Jay and Roberta Allgood, Christina and Norman Clifford and Eileen Boyle.
Gutenberg’s Marvels Continued –
Smithsonian Institution. This permanent collection includes a variety of antique presses in several period rooms. These include an 1885 newspaper shop, a late 18th century print shop and post office, a type foundry from the mid-19th century and an 1865 job printing shop. Here are many pieces of printing equipment from early English wooden presses and a steam operated cylinder press to type casters and various type setting machines. The main printing exhibit is in the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian, Washington, D. C. 20560. It is open Memorial Day through Labor Day from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily, and Labor Day through May 30 from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Admission is free.
Across the mall in the Arts and Industries Museum is the centennial printing exhibit where a sample 1876 newspaper is printed. This free exhibit is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. all year.
Mike Etrick Old Time Print Shop. Visitors will find Gordon, Golding and Chandler and Price 19th century platen presses here with all the tools of the trade that went with them: fonts of vintage metal and wood type, round-cornering machines, wooden galleys and wooden composing sticks. Located at 404 E. Fulton St., Garden City, KS 67846, it is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon. through Fri. Free (316) 276-3401.
Boot Hill Museum. This is a re-creation of a local Dodge City newspaper shop which houses Golding and Chandler and Price platen presses and an 1880 Miles proof press. Located on Front St., Dodge City, KS 67801, it is open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Admission: $3 adults, $2.50 children and senior citizens.
Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. Here is a fine printing collection that traces the evolution of printing from early hand lever wooden presses to the rotary newspaper press of the early 20th century. Most valuable is an 1805 Ramage wooden-lever press, perhaps the only one in the U.S. There is an 1821 Stansbury press and an 1845 Washington press once used by Mark Twain. Besides a variety of 19th century platen presses, the museum possesses a Unitype or Simplex typesetting machine, one of only four known to exist in the country. Two Washington hand presses turn out early American printing samples and daily demonstrations are open to visitors. The museum and village are open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Christmas and New Year’s Day. Admission is $8 for the museum, $8 for the village, half price for children under 12.
Type is 10pt. Bodoni Book on a Model 14 Linotype
Henry Jolly is dangerous. His linoleum block workshop could prove infectious.
Ann Vrooman, assuming the Chair reluctantly, noted to the convention: “Oh, I’ve lost one of my buttons!” A voice replied: “That’s all right, as long as it wasn’t your marbles.”
As this is being set in type Glenn is holding a round table discussion on typesetting and type styles. I’m quite sure he’s angling for converts to the sans serif school of printing, this is further evidenced by the fact that I hear Bill Boys has agreed to impart a special blessing, at a fee of course, to all heretics who swing away from roman. – E. X. F.
A tribute was observed honoring our members who have passed on in the past year – Ex-Presidents: John J. Gillick, Joseph Bradburn, and J. Rolfe Castleman, members: Ben Green Cooper, Ramon and Doris Meyer, William T. Trebor, Audrey Strandberg, A. L. “Joe” Shearn, Ernest Fish, N. A. Leuken and L. P. V. Johnson. Ex-members: Donald Block and Brooks Atkinson.
This is my second convention and Elaine is teaching me to set type. – GA
A photographer-reporter from The Los Angeles Times duly recorded pressroom activity and convention doings.
To those people that made the print shop a great success, a big THANK YOU!!! – B.G.