Mid-Cities Stamp Club

of ARLINGTON and IRVING, TEXAS

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Welcome to the Mid-Cities Stamp Club Website. Whether you're a member or a visitor, thank you for taking the time to visit. We hope you'll find interesting and useful information at this site.

The Mid-Cities Stamp Club, founded in 1973 by Ray and Karen Cartier, is one of the largest and most active local stamp clubs in Texas. We counted 122 members as of March 20, 2008. The club hosts two meetings a month (one in Arlington, one in Irving) in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. We have an affiliate club in Granbury, TX. which meets once a month. More.

IRVING MEETING - MAR 19

Program to be announced.

This meeting will be held at The Irving Garden and Arts Building at 906 Senter Street, three blocks north of Shady Grove Road. Meeting begins at 7:30 pm.

GRANBURY MEETING - MAR 25

Program will be presented by member Ray Cartier, on "Aircraft built in Fort Worth" (covering the B24 through the F35). Members will be meeting at Cotton Patch at 5:30 for food and a visit with Ray and Karen Cartier. (NOTE: Cotton Patch Restuarant is located at 1151 E 377; to get there heading south on route 377, just past Kroger, stay in the left lane and turn left at Hill (next intersection) and Cotton Patch is located in the shopping center next to CVS Drugs.) The club meeting will be held at Tarleton State University"s Langdon Center, in the Rock House (corner of Bridge and Stockton Street) at 7:00 p.m.

ARLINGTON MEETING - APR 2

Program will be a Power Point presentation entitled "Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports of China and Japan." Meeting will be held at the Bob Duncan Community Center, 2800 S. Center Street in Vandergriff Park. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm, with the room available around 6:30pm.

IRVING MEETING - APR 16

Program to be presented by club member Jack Urish, on a subject to be announced. The mixture pick will be US Commemoratives.

GRANBURY MEETING - APR 22

Program to be presented by Phil DeLucchi, on "The Channel Island - UK." The meeting will be held at Tarleton State University"s Langdon Center, in the Studio (corner of Bridge and Stockton Street) at 7:00 p.m.

ARLINGTON MEETING - MAY 7

Program will be the Arlington Semi-Annual auction. Meeting will be held at the Bob Duncan Community Center, 2800 S. Center Street in Vandergriff Park. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm, with the room available around 6:30 pm.

MCSC VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The club need volunteers in the following area:

• a Programs Chairperson for the Arlington meetings. Contact Dick Phelps.

TSDA 2008 GOES TO FRI/SAT FORMAT

Tom Cunningham, TSDA Dallas Bourse Manager, has announced that all TSDA Dallas shows for the year 2008 will utilize a Friday/Saturday format. Friday hours will be 3pm - 8pm, and Saturday hours will be 9am-4pm. This change affects TSDA Dallas shows only. TSDA Houston and San Antonio shows will continue to be Sat./Sun. shows. This change is being implemented in order to counter the dwindling Sunday turnouts. Dallas shows will continue to be held at the Richardson Civic Center. Incidentally, the upcoming OKPEX show in Oklahoma City will be a Thur./Fri./Sat. show this year.

THANKS TO EXPO 2006/2007 DONORS

Two of our EXPO programs, the Chance Board and Silent Auction, literally depend on club member time and/or material donations for their success. We are grateful to the following members for their contributions to these EXPO programs: [Due to space limitations, the list of donors is now maintained on a separate page.]
EXPO 2006 Contributors     EXPO 2007 Contributors

MCSC 2007 SPONSOR DONORS

The club is thankful for its' many "sponsor" members. Sponsor members donate $25.00 or more to the club in lieu of the regular dues amount. The following members are Sponsor Members for 2007:

Susan Baker, John Barrett, Eric Bomgren, Bill Bradshaw, Robert Bray, Dr. James Camak, Malcom J (Jim) Carpenter, Stanley and Judy Christmas, Kenneth Cox, Thomas Cunningham, Herman Dallof, Shea and Von Dunn, Peggy Duvall, Travis Eaton, Peter Elias, John Farr, Jean-Marc Fix, Kaye Harrison, Richard Hildebrandt, Kenneth Kurruish, Dean Latas, Thomas (Tom) Little, Jr., Steve Magyar, Jerold L. "Jerry" Mertz, Joe Nazzaro, Dick and Penni Phelps, Jerome "Jerry" Potter, Jim Rickman, Leona Faye (Lee) and Roy E. Swafford, Bob Tallon, Martin Towb, Tom Turner, Stephen (Steve) Twenge, Robert (Bob) and Jean Werry, Ken Wills.

MCSC WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS

The Mid-Cities Stamp Club continues to grow. We now have 113 members. The following new members have recently joined the Mid-Cities Stamp Club: Stephen M. Robbins (#434), Margaret S. Robbins (#435), Patricia Weidman (#436), Jean-Marc Fix, and Nathan Yawn. In addition, Billy Sack has rejoined the club. We hope you each enjoy your membership in the club.

For questions, suggestions, problems, etc. regarding this website, please contact Jim Myers at jasdmyers@earthlink.net

This website was last updated: April 29, 2008.

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MCSC QUICK INFO LINKS

Irving Meeting   dates and locations.
Meet'N'Eat   list of dates and locations.
Newsletter   current ed (full-graphics vers).
Stamp Show   EXPO 2008 information.
Website   recent changes.

Newly updated for:

• Arlington May Meet'N'Eat Locations.
• Irving May Meet'N'Eat Locations.
• May MCSC Newsletter.
• EXPO 2008 Stamp Show.

EXPO 2008 QUICK INFO LINKS

Advance Flyer      Official Hotel     

EXPO 2008 THEME CHOSEN

The theme for EXPO 2008 will be “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Everyone should "pitch" in and help make this show a success.

EXPO 2007 POST-SHOW REPORT

Jim Camak has furnished us with a post-Show report on EXPO 2007:

The 20th Mid-Cities Stamp Expo, held November 10-11 at the Grapevine Convention Center, was again successful, drawing an estimated 360 attendees ... The theme of the Expo was the 100th Anniversary of the City of Grapevine, where the Expo is held each year ... There were 25 dealers present with a wide variety of philatelic material to peruse ...

The complete EXPO 2007 post-Show report can be viewed as a WORD document, or as a PDF file.

TSDA STAMP SHOWS

The Texas Stamp Dealers Association (TSDA) is sponsoring a stamp show in Houston, May 31 - Jun 1, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, 7611 Katy Fwy. (I-10 West, exit at Antoine), Houston, 77024.

The next show after the Houston show will be in San Antonio, Jun 21-22, at Hotel Monarchy, 2635 NE Loop 410 (exit 25B - Perrin Beitel, San Antonio, TX 78217.

After the June San Antonio show, the next TSDA show will be in Dallas, Jul 18-19, at the Richardson Civic Center (new location for 2008), 411 West Arapaho (exit US 75 at Arapaho and go west about 2 blocks), Richardson, TX 75080-4551.

All Dallas TSDA shows for 2008 will be held in a Fri/Sat format, with Fri. hours being 3pm-8pm, and Saturday hours being 9am-4pm. All other TSDA shows (Houston, San Antonio), will be held Sat/Sun, with the hours being 10a-5p Sat. and 10a-4p Sun.

Other upcoming shows where you might find TSDA members are the annual TEXPEX show Apr 11-13.

HOW'S YOUR PHILATELIC KNOWLEDGE ?

Our NEWS section contains capsulized items of philatelic interest. While not necessarily "up-to-the-minute", the selected items are thought to be of general informational value.

Do you know ...

• which philatelic organization sponsors an annual Holiday Cover contest through its' Texas Philatelist journal ?
  
  
• the year railroad cars were first used for mail service in the U.S. (and why this service came to an end on Sept. 28, 2004) ?
  
  
• which US stamps, valued at $22,000, were reportedly stolen in-transit from a FedEx shipment Sept. 1. ?

MCSC NEWSLETTER -
STAMPING AROUND

The current edition (May, 2008) of our award-winning newsletter is now available from this site. (Note: this is the full-graphics version, best accessed via broadband.) Back-issues can be accessed at our newsletter storage site. Also, the current issue is available there in compressed format.

2007-08 MID-CITIES STAMP CLUB
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS