Status: U Return-Path: Received: from web5205.mail.yahoo.com ([216.115.106.86]) by tyner.mail.mindspring.net (Earthlink Mail Service) with SMTP id tj82hv.6kv.37kbi5q for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:17:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010623031600.3540.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.12.102.151] by web5205.mail.yahoo.com; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:16:00 PDT Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:16:00 -0700 (PDT) From: MPCgram Subject: MPCGram 372 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 372 Friday, June 22, 2001 More on IBNS Celebration by John Wilson What a great celebration the 40th IBNS Anniversary celebration was. We want to especially thank Guido Crapanzano - IBNS President, Howard Daniels lll who chaired the event, Col. Joe Boling who was MC, Fred Schwan who assisted everyone, and Mike Crabb who chaired the Memphis Coin Club's 25th IPMS Paper Money convention and assisted with some of the arrangements for the celebration. Ski was exactly right in what he said regarding the very gala breakfast celebrating the 40th IBNS Anniversary. It was the greatest awards breakfast we have ever attended. Numismatists and luminaries were their from around the world. With many countries represented this was truly an international event, for the International Bank Note Society. Nancy and I, along with several others were honored with an IBNS awards medal at the 40th celebration. We are honored to receive such fantastic awards and want to thank the IBNS for the honor. IBNS has contributed so greatly to our numismatic and syngraphic hobby for many years. It is an honor and a privilege for me to be a member of such a numismatically progressive organization. I am very proud to be a life member #132 of the IBNS. Thanks are also due to the many contributors of the wonderful prizes for the gala 40th celebration. Thank you all for contributing the wonderful prizes for the event. =============================================== Editorial ---------------------------------------------------- I hardly need to add my praise about the IBNS spectacular in Memphis, but it was indeed wonderful. The preparations on the new MPC book are nearing completion. We hope to be able to provide some highlights and insights in the next few days or weeks. In the meantime, we need to keep working! =========================================== Mail Call ----------------------------------------------- Dear Lyn, Fred has done you a disservice if he failed to warn you about the addicting nature of MPC's. As a witness who attended the MPC FEST II and watched the conversion of an innocent bystander(Rod H.) to a collector-fanatic and to an extent (Gary H.)from a collector of MPC scoffing at the craziness of the interesting possibilities of position number and serial number fanatics turn into a grown person shouting "Does anyone have serial number 4 notes," it was not a pretty sight. It really doesn't matter now. It's too late. You have touched the notes and chits. It's just a matter of time until the full manifestation hits you. Good luck! It is a lifelong illness. Attend MPC FEST III in 2002 and see for yourself how far some AMC-MPC collectors have sunk. David Howard, I just read your note in MPC Gram about your purchase of Amerasia. This was a small obscure magazine before the war, but became famous by its end. Someone in the State Department (?) was leaking classified documents to the magazine during the war, and Amerasia was publishing them! The FBIraided their headquarters, made some arrests, released them on bond, but Idon't think the case ever came to trial. Most of the "classified" papers were reprinted about 1970 in a USGPO report called "The Amerasia Papers." It was part of a congressional investigation into what should and should notbe classified. This eventually led to the Freedom of Information Act. The publication spawned a couple other books on the subject. Bruce Smith Dear Editor, The NLG newsletter is here, but the only electronic articles being accepted in the competition are those published on web pages. The gram would not qualify unless someone is putting it up daily on papermoneyworld.com. Is someone? Joe Dear Joe, Are you surprised that we disagree? Yes, I agree that authors are not eligible for award in the web page category for articles published in the Gram. I belive that Gram authors (and the Gram itself) qualifies as a newspaper or magazine. If forced to select one of these, I would say that the Gram is a newspaper (possibly newsletter). I hope that Gram authors will submit some of their work. In the future we will work toward the Gram staff making submissions on behalf of the Gram. Possibly this is something that the indexer can do (smile, Ed!). I hope that you will submitt some of your work today! 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. David Amey, Mr. Anonymous Donor, Mike Cummings, Sue and Keith Bauman, Ed B., Doug Bell, Tom Denly, Continental Coin Invensor, Inc., Denly's, Howard Daniel, 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. This service is for everyone, most humble dealer or most advanced collector. The point is to make the gram more interesting. Send in a list of items for sale and we will list them here in the gram. In all cases confirm your order via email first. FOR SALE Your items for sale will be listed in the Gram for FREE. Send your listings now. You items for sale support the gram by making it more interesting for everyone! New discovery found in Memphis! Unlisted in Schwan/Boling! German Occupied Poland, 1 Punkt (Point) ration note for Vodka. http://www.papermoneyworld.com/mat/vodka.jpg $15 postage paid. Payment is by cash, personal check or paypal (until I reach my monthly receiving limit). Please reserve by e-mail at marcus@papermoneyworld.com. WANTED Collectors may submit lists of items wanted for their collections for listing here. Dealers and collectors who have these items are then encouraged to list them or sale in the above section. This is a trial, if you like it, send your list. =================================================== Staff: publisher and editor: Fred Schwan - fred@papermoneyworld.com; assistant editor - Phil Goldstein IWANTMYMPC@aol.com Tuesday columnist Joe Boling – JoeBoling@aol.com Thurski columnist Larry “Ski” Smulczenski – ski@papermoneyworld.com critic: Harold Kroll - MPCKid@papermoneyworld.com; index manager: Ed Beaman webmaster & technical advisor: Doug Bell - (Wiz): doug@papermoneyworld.com; The Boss: Judy Schwan ===== MPC Gram is published by BNR Press and papermoneyworld.com as a free service to the community of military money collectors. Your suggestions, criticisms, complaints, editorial contributions, letters, and even praise are very welcome. The entire contents including linked illustrations are copyright protected by the publishers. 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