Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5205.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.86]) by osgood.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id thjeou.54m.37kbi1v for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 00:20:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010603042044.27345.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [205.188.200.56] by web5205.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 02 Jun 2001 21:20:44 PDT Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 21:20:44 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 353 To: MPCGram@Yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ============================================== MPC Gram ============================================== Covering the Entire World of Military Numismatics ----------------------------------------------- Series 002-Number 353 Saturday, June 2, 2001 Two More Scholarship Winners Announced Marcus Turner on behalf of the ANA Summer Seminar in World War II numismatics has announced two more recipients of scholarships for this inaugural event. The winners are Harold Kroll of Semmes, Alabama and Sam Feeback of Lawton, Oklahoma. Both are relatively new—but very keen—collectors of military money. Feeback provided (via Turner) the following biographical information. My current collecting interests are for anything from the world war I or world war II era up to the present time. I also am a beginning MPC collector. I served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam as a small arms weapons repairman. I used MPC while there and brought a set back . I eventually sold that set and a few years ago I got interested in collecting it again. I am interested in AMC also, and try to collect what I can afford within my budget. I am 51 years of age and have been interested in Numistatics since the early 60's . I am fascinated with any of the money which was used during war time from any era war up to the present time. I am also interested in military weapons and ammunition and collect these items too. I like to shoot what I collect. Kroll is well known among gramsters through articles and letters that he has submitted [not nearly enough of these—editor] and personal contact with many Gramsters. He has been actively collecting WWII paper money for about two years, but he collected Third Reich coins for many years before that. He found his way to military money via a chance purchase on ebay. Both collectors are also Festers although Feeback was a participant in absentia having experienced a family medical emergency at the last moment that kept him from attending. =============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- The announcement of scholarship recipients Kroll and Feeback brings the scholarship number to four and applications are closed for this year unless some extraordinary circumstance presents itself. It is my opinion that this program has been a wild success and something of which we can all be proud. Based upon comments from collectors who wanted to attend the seminar but had a schedule conflict, it seems clear that another seminar will be possible next year. That is goof for the obvious reasons, but also because this time we have a year to prepare more and better presentations, rectuit more students, generate more income, and award more scholarship. So, even though all of the scholarships have been awarded for this year, the work is hardly finished. More money is needed, and applicants need to be recruited (but applications for 2002 will not be accepted for eight months or so). Good job. =========================================== Mail Call Dear Editor, I am replying to a man named WES about a question he had about a letter I sent in about my time in Japan. I did not give the assignments but I looked them up. I attended 1st grade at Green Park School Systems at Johnson Air Base-Japan up to August 1961 and then I attended the 2nd grade from August 1961 to June 1, 1962 at Tackikawa Dependants School-Tachikawa Air Base- Japan. I am always interested to finding someone my age stationed at the same bases during the same time periods. I apoligize for leaving out the information in my earlier letter. I am still interested in knowing about others best guess about how much MPC possible survived. William Choate Dear William (and Wes), Joe Boling (JoeBoling@aol.com) is editor of a newsletter for anyone who attended military dependent schools. He will be happy to hear from you. Editor Dear Editor (of Paper Money, forwarded to MPCGram) My dad has several bills he found in the Philippines during World War II. They are printed "Japanese Government" 5 and 10 pesos in English. They have markings in red "PE", the 5 pesos has red 0074940 and 0062674. One 5 pesos had "PD" in red. He also has a one dollar from the Philippines, one peso, marked as the victory series no. 66. Printed at the top "by authority of an act of the Phillipines legislature. Approved by the president of the United States, June 13, 1922. The last one. a one dollar bill from Netherlands. Every thing is in foriegn writing except at the bottom it says "American Bank Note" Do you know anything about these bills? Dad's memory is getting a little bad. So many years ago. His recolletion is that they found boxes of money in the Phillipines. He thinks the Jap money was to be used in the states after they (Japs) won the war. Terry Dear Terry, Thank you very much for the inquiry. You father was like millions of other servicemembers. He collected (gathered) some notes as he went along. Each is an historic reminder of an epic event. You can find discussion of each of these issues in World War II Remembered. It is available from many numismatic libraries and some public libraries. We think that it should be in every public library and your local librarian would probably be pleased to have the suggestion. In any event the library certainly should be able to obtain the book via interlibrary loan. We have added you to the subscription list. Editor ================================================ Departments --------------------------------------------------- WWII numismatics seminar at ANA Summer Seminar 2001 --------------------------------------------------- Not only does the scholarship fund have an official identity but also has a bank account! Any further donations should be paid to the order of "Military Numismatists Scholarship" and sent to: Military Numismatists c/o Marcus Turner 8103 East US Highway 36 Suite 163 Avon, IN 46123 THE UPDATED LIST OF SCHOLARSHIP BENEFACTORS 3/22/01. These folks have generously provided money or material to finance scholarships to the ANA WWII Numismatics seminar. Your contributions will help promote collecting WWII material and be greatly appreciated. Many donations were received at CPMX and MPCFest. Mr. Anonymous Donor, Mike Cummings, Sue and Keith Bauman, Ed B., Doug Bell, Tom Denly, Continental Coin Invensor, Inc., Denly's, R. A. Medina, Harold “MPCKid” Kroll, Leo "Paymaster" May, Mrs. R.C. Matherne, Bill McNease, Marv Mericle, Mel and Jeremy Steinberg, Marcus Turner, Larry Ski, Guido, Fred, PK6, Joel Shafer, World Wide Ventures, Pam West, John and Nancy Wilson, Neil Shafer, W. E. Yanchick, Mark Watson, Al Glaser, Phil Goldstein, Rod Hardy, Wesley Hardy, Gary Hicks, Jack Lippincott, Ian Marshall, Kevin Maloy, David Seelye, Nick Schrier, Elmer Smith, Dan Swartz, Tom Warburton, Dick Freyser, Tim Kyzivat ==================================================== Post/Base Exchange (PX/BX/NEX) Dump your dupes! Your classified advertisement for items for sale will be run here for free. Send your ads to the gram. 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