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100 Zeppelin Letters, congratulations Bob!

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Bob Wilcsek published in the Airpost Journal, the monthly pblication of the American Airmail Society, his 100th Zeppelin Letter. His first Zeppelin Letter column in the Airpost Journal was published in June 1992 and Bob continuesly fed his readership with stunning and interesting facts and discoveries on zeppelin mail. The February 2010 issue (Volume 81, Number 2) of the Airpost Journal printed now his 100th column. Incredible – might this fountain of information never run dry!

Congratulations Bob!

P.S. Has anyone counted the columns Bob wrote for the Zeppelin Post Journal?

Jim Graue back on the board & new Editor-in-Chief

Monday, September 14th, 2009

News from the BALPEX 2009 show:

Congratulations to Jim Graue for winning the AAMS Grand Award and Show Reserve Grand Award at BALPEX 2009 with his exhibit German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail 1929-1935.

Jim Graue was also selected to complete the term of Jeff Shapiro who stepped down from the Board of Directors of the American Airmail Society

And finally, Jim Graue was elected Editor-in-Chief of the American Air Mail Catalogues.

100 years – Happy Birthday!

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

She remembers the sound of the zeppelin engines and at school, they had to raise funds for the Zeppelin-Eckener-Spende (Zeppelin-Eckener-fund). In 1933 she spent the summer at Lake Constance and visited the airship hanger and airship LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin where the photo was taken.
This photo was also illustrated on page 5 of the Fall08 issue of the Zeppelin Post Journal http://www.ezep.de/zpj/fa08.html

Today Helly Wachter is celebrating her 100th birthday – Happy Birthday!

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Cheryl Ganz from the NPM on TV

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Check out Fox 5 morning news: Cheryl Ganz is on TV!

Cheryl is chief curator of philately at the National Postal Museum Washington DC and well known zeppelin mail collector. http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/mornings/holly_live/090309_holly_morris_national_postal_museum

Source at www.eZEPtalk.de: http://www.ezeptalk.de/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=168

Jim Graue new GPS president

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Jim Graue is the new president of the Germany Philatelic Society (GPS) in the USA! His new vice president is Jerry Miller. Congratulations!

Source: www.eZEPtalk.de, the board for zeppelin mail and airship memorabilia.

Detailed link of source: http://www.ezeptalk.de/viewtopic.php?f=68&p=552#p552