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Volume 53, Number 4, Fall 2009 THE TRACKER JOURNAL OF THE ORGAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY O r g a n H i s t O r i c a l s O c i e t y Post Office Box 26811, Richmond, Virginia 23261 • 804-353-9226 • fax: 804-353-9266 e-mail: [email protected] • web: www.organsociety.org • online catalog: www.ohscatalog.org The NaTioNal CouNCil CoNVeNTIONs offiCers aNd CouNCilors Term Expires Pittsburgh, June 21–26, 2010 Washington, D.C., June 27–July 2, 2011 Scot L. Huntington . president 2011 J.R. Daniels Jim Stark Carl Schwartz P.O. Box 56, Stonington, CT 06378 401-348-8298 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Chicago, July 8–13, 2012 Vermont, June 24–29, 2013 Joseph M. McCabe . vice president 2013 Dennis Northway Marilyn Polson 1612 Blossom Park Ave., Lakewood, OH 44107 716-881-1428 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Stephen J. Schnurr Jr. .secretary 2011 Saint Paul Church, Box 1475, Valparaiso, IN 46384 219-531-0922 [email protected] James M. 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