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The next meeting of the club will take place on Sunday May 11, 2008. The venue will, as usual, be the Balboa Mission Town Hall, 16916 San Fernando Mission Blvd., Granada Hills and the time 1:00 P.M. The presentation at the meeting will be "The Orthographic Development of the Greek and Latin Alphabets as Seen on Ancient Coins". The presenter will be Frank Martin.

AT THE APRIL MEETING

BUSINESS

Meeting called to order at 1:30 by Bob Effler, President. The Treasurer's report was given by Roger Burry. Webmaster Mike Connor reported that Hugh Kramer's Nero article is attracting the most visitors. New articles are still wanted. Ken Friedman reported being contacted by a university professor and asked if Club members would cooperate in a survey of collectors. At least 20 members are needed for the sample.

PRESENTATION

Roger Burry and Merrill Gibson gave a joint presentation on "The Athenian Empire, Its History and Coins".  The presentation was illustrated with parts of a lecture by Dr. Jeremy McInerney, and power presentations by Roger and Merrill.

The program was very enlightening and, as usual, made for a thoroughly worthwhile meeting.

Respectfully submitted,
David Stepsay, Secretary

The next meeting of the club will take place on Sunday April 13, 2008. The venue will, as usual, be the Balboa Mission Town Hall, 16916 San Fernando Mission Blvd., Granada Hills and the time 1:00 P.M. The meeting will feature a seminar on "The Athenian Empire, Its History and Coins" presented by Merrill Gibson and Roger Burry.

FEBRUARY MEETING BUSINESS

Meeting called to order at 1:30 by President Bob Effler. Barry Rightman Treasurer, gave his report. He suggested we should have name badges for the sake of identifying the membership to the new members and for the older members to be used as aides-memoirs. Catalogs were brought in for sale with the proceeds going to the club. Webmaster Mike Connor reported that the website is still going great guns, with Hugh Kramer's Nero being the most popular accessed article last month. Roger Burry reported that the Celator published his report of the Club Meeting featuring Randy Butler's presentation.

PRESENTATION

Dr. Robert Cleve was the presenter. He held forth on "The Painted Tombs of Paestum".

Paestum was a Greek city on the western coast of Southern Italy 60 miles south of Naples. Dr. Robert Cleve first visited there in 1985. Dr. Cleve gave reviewed the archeology of the region and then gave presentation liberally illustrated with fantastic fifth century BCE paintings that adorned tombs that have only been uncovered in the last 40 years.  These constitute the most extensive collection of Greek paintings that have survived. 

Respectfully submitted,
David Stepsay, Secretary

The next meeting of the club will be held on Sunday March 9, 2008 as usual in the Balboa Mission Town Hall, 16916 San Fernando Mission Blvd., Granada Hills at 1:00 P.M

BUSINESS

The last meeting was called to order at 1:30 P.M. by President Bob Effler. Barry Rightman gave the Treasurer's report and followed up with a discussion of the wherewithal to pay for the Club's liability insurance. Membership cards were signed and passed out. There are currently 3 orders for RIC II at the discounted (from $195) price of $150. Web-master Mike Connor reported that we'll be getting revenues from Amazon.com by Direct Deposit. We have enjoyed an increase of visitors of 10% over the last year. Our Celator liaison, Roger Burry, reported that Barry's talk from a month ago has been published. As Program Chairman Roger also reported that he will be rescheduling Dr. Cleve in March.

PROGRAM

As indicated in the last missive the program had to be changed to something else after the forced cancellation by Dr. Cleve. Roger valiantly stepped into the breach with a proposed Valentine's day presentation that would feature the distaff side of the various rulers of the ancient lands, to wit, the female counterparts depicted on coins. A number of members brought in coins that were circulated and much discussed.

NEXT PRESENTATION

On March 9, Dr. Robert Cleve will give his rescheduled talk on Ancient Greek Paintings of Paestum. We look forward to his presentation.

Respectfully submitted
David Stepsay, Secretary

The next meeting of the club will take place on Sunday February 10, 2008 at the 1:00 PM at Balboa Mission Town Hall, 16916 San Fernando Mission Blvd., Granada Hills.

LAST MEETING

The last meeting was called to order at 1:25 PM by President Bob Effler. The installation of Officers and Board elected at the December meeting was disposed of in quick order. Treasurer Barry Rightman reported acquiring liability insurance for the Club. Ken Friedman suggested that since we can now move our meeting location, Glendale Galleria which is free may now be considered. Further discussion was tabled in honor of the proceedings which were to take place in this meeting.  Web-master Mike Connor indicated that there were 61,000 individual visitors to the Website in 2007, 21,000 more than 2006, or 210 per day. We have money coming from Amazon through commission on sales through the Website. Don't forget to continue to support the Club by buying your books from Amazon or Barnes and Noble by clicking on the links on the ACCLA website. Roger Burry reported that we should have a report in the next Celator reviewing Randy Butler's talk in December.  Ken Friedman offered the last 5 posters on the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine rulers. There was a brief discussion of the recent Gemini auction. Lower quality coins are going up in price--drastically--and books astronomically. Interest in a bulk purchase of the upcoming RIC II and Coins of Roman Antioch was discussed. The group then dispersed to dine.

PROGRAM

Just after the festive comestibles were consumed by those in attendance, a quiz contest on coinage was held under the auspices of Roger Burry who had put it together. The group was divided into three separate but not necessarily equal subgroups who had at it trying to answer questions illustrated on the screen. A good time was had by all.

NEXT MONTH

Professor Robert Cleve, late of CSUN where he was a professor of ancient history, will present on "Ancient Greek Paintings of Paestum".

NEW MEMBERS

We were graced with four new members at this meeting: Harrison Leff, Ernie Liang, Brett Telford and L. D. Mitchell. Welcome to you all.

Respectfully submitted
David Stepsay, Secretary

FELICEM ANNUM NOVUM HABEATIS!

The next meeting of the club will be the Annual Officer Installation Banquet. It will be held on Sunday January 13, 2008 as usual in the Balboa Mission Town Hall, 16916 San Fernando Mission Blvd., Granada Hills at 1:00 PM.

BUSINESS

The incumbent officers agreed to serve at least one more term and  were all re-elected as follows:

President: Bob Effler
Vice-President/Program Chairman: Roger Burry
Secretary: David Stepsay
Treasurer: Barry Rightman

The new Board of Directors is as follows:

Mike Connor
Ken Friedman
Merrill Gibson
Hugh Kramer (Past President)
Paul Ranc
Mark Westerline

Club officers made their reports. The Treasurer reported the balance in the Club Treasury. Mike Connor, Web-Master, reported a continuing high number of new visitors. He is planning to add a Glossary section; input from club members was requested. Roger Burry, Program Chairman, described the programs planned for the year 2008. The January program will be a coin/history quiz. Member inputs were requested.

Bob Effler suggested buying a batch of roughly 70 uncleaned coins (found in Syria) for use in the April 2008 meeting (on coin cleaning) and future door prizes.

PROGRAM

ACCLA member Randy Butler took club members down the west coast of ancient Turkey as he presented "Travels In & Coins of Turkey".

RAFFLE

The meeting concluded with the usual raffle of history and numismatic books, enjoyed by the members both winners and losers, after which the meeting was adjourned until next month.

Respectfully submitted
David Stepsay, Secretary

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