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Filatelic Fiesta Christmas Party

he 2014 edition of Fiesta is history ur annual Christmas party will T and we had some positives and O take place December 10th. Once some negatives. On the plus side the again you are asked to coordinate your Scout program was once again very food choices with Mary Ann Stanfield, successful. The club’s hospitality area call her at 408.747.1653. Once again 9 - 11—WE WILL NEVER FORGET we’ll hold our annual Christmas dinner was very well received and a number 2014 Club Officers of philatelic items were sold, all of with the postcard club co-hosting the which bolsters club membership and event. The two clubs will provide the President main meat dish. Significant others are our treasury. The exhibits were once Brian Jones...... 408.927.6861 invited and encouraged to attend. [email protected] again world class.

Vice President On the down side, we once again have suffered poor attendance. Most ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Occhipinti . . . . . 408.723.0122 DUES ARE DUE dealers and unbiased observers voice Secretary PLEASE PAY THEM NOW AS the same reason—advertising. While David Gilman ...... 408.264.1953 THE TREASURER DOES NOT [email protected] a few new approaches were applied, it was obviously far too short on success. WANT THEM TO DRAG ON Treasurer PAST JANUARY FOR PAYMENT. Most agree that we badly need someone Richard Clever ...... 408.238.0893 THANK YOU [email protected] to fill the post of Advertising Chair.

Newsletter Editor This would enable us to channel all our ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Sauer ...... 408.445.2694 ideas into one crucible to be evaluated [email protected] and tried. Many of us have ideas and Ron Yamagami

Filatelic Fiesta General Chairman a few avenues to be pursued to this s noted in November’s newsletter,

Steve Schumann . . . . 510.785.4794 end. It sounds more difficult than it A Ron underwent kidney transplant [email protected] really is, particularly for anyone with surgery at the VA hospital in Portland, Exhibits Chairman a little organization, and able to talk to Oregon. He is still in Portland and does Dr. Edward Laveroni . . 408.356.7561 people. Perhaps you are the one??? not expect to return home until around

Bourse Chairman A few complain about the venue. I the 8th to the 10th of December.

Wayne Menuz ...... 408.265.5539 believe this is a non-issue—we can He’s informed me that all of his lab afford it and the location is central to Visit our website at: test results are excellent and that he’s the valley, however a little paint would recovering nicely. filatelicfiesta.org do wonders. This is good news and am certain all The parking issue was solved and we looking forward to his return. Founded 1927, Club show since 1928 can solve the advertising issue too... Once again, I urge anyone who has not st rd Meets 7:00 PM, 1 & 3 Wednesdays rd done so to register as a donor of your Hilltop Manor in 3 floor dining room Stamp Wants body parts upon your passing. So much 790 Ironwood Drive, San Jose, California Driving instructions on the website. n page six of last November’s is being done to save lives and, God Annual dues: O newsletter I initiated, what I forbid, you may become a recipient... Adults/families $12 ~ Youths $6 hope will become a monthly feature, With hardcopy of newsletter $20 Stamp Wants . Due to the length of APS chapter # 0264-025791 Correspondence to: the article on Simón Bolívar, this P O Box 730993, San Jose, CA 95173 month’s Stamp Wants will not appear. I’m hoping you will develop your list

Contents of stamps that you’re looking for and will forward to me for the January Pot-pourrie & Prez Sez ...... 2 newsletter. If there is no interest I Simón Bolívar ...... 3 will not pursue it, however, I really Filatelic Fiesta 2014 Photos ...... 7 do believe it’s a great idea to further

Show Calendar, Want ads ...... 8 serve the membership and hope you Howard Petschel speaking on U.S. forged do too.-ed. stamps during Filatelic Fiesta 2014.

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Q What character did Karl Malden play in the television series, The hospitality area looked fantastic this year. A real effort “The Streets of San Francisco?” was made to improve the appearance & signage and wonderful results were achieved. The guests, judges, club members and A Detective Lieutenant Mike Stone. dealers enjoyed the coffee, donuts, water and other snacks.

From Northern California Trivia by Ernie & Jill Couch This was a big success and we should continue to host this activity. The four page club and show presentations made it Fiesta Fotos very easy to talk it up with guests. It remains to be seen if participating clubs gain new members from this project but I remain optimistic. An effort is being made to encourage the Nor Cal Council of Philatelic Societies to continue to have the club/show presentations to be exhibited at other shows. The presentations and exhibits that Jim Steinwinder prepared made a huge visual impact. Jim did a tremendous amount of research creating the presentations, especially finding the original artwork and design inspirations for the stamp designs of early US commemoratives. Jim also donated VERY generously to our club sale. The whole club owes Jim a huge debt of gratitude. The club sale netted $271 in sales. This is more than last year and a great result, but we should challenge ourselves to exceed this in 2015. Jim Steinwinder with his video and stamp The youth programs were another success this year. We had exhibit located in the hospitality area. 23 Boy Scouts earn their stamp collecting merit badge on Saturday. Local Cub Scouts attended to earn the collecting belt loop. We had about 40 Cub Scouts, plus their siblings and parents. Several nice thank-you emails were received from the parents afterward. We can be proud of the variety of opportunities we provide young people to learn about philately. Did you meet our guest Howard Petchel? He is a fascinating individual with a wealth of information about counterfeit stamps and postal fraud. I look forward to reading his three books in the coming months. There was a good turnout for his talk Saturday, but only myself and Kristin on Sunday. I wish I had been better able to promote his visit. He is negotiating with the WESTPEX committee to make an appearance there as well. I didn’t have an opportunity to interact with the India Study Circle, so I don’t have a personal account for how their meetings and activities went. I’d love to hear from anybody who has any Located in the hospitality area, David Occhipinti sits feedback on the ISC. at the table of the SJSC’s philatelic items for sale. A major source of improvement for 2015 is publicity to the general public. I tried to do it myself this year, but it didn’t work out very well. Professional help is required. One thing we can work on is starting to develop a presence on social media for both the club and show. This alone won’t create the attendance boost we want, but it is a start we can do for zero cost. A second way to improve is have more participation from more of our club members and more members from regional clubs. Jim Steinwinder and David Occhipinti worked every hour for the entire show. That is way too much time for anyone to have to spend on any chore for the show. We must do much better next year. Everybody in the club deserves the opportunity to get away from booth duty and enjoy the rest of the show. Edie Eggen and John Hunt at the registration We’ve got a great show and it is only getting better, so plan table with showgoer Joe Ross, the revenue guru. ahead on how you can contribute in 2015. 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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.—Anthony Burgess Don Simón Rodriguez was later to become Bolívar's friend and was retaken on 6 August 1813 and Bolívar was ratified as "El mentor, and he instilled in the young man the ideas of liberty, Libertador", thus proclaiming the restoration of the Venezuelan enlightenment, and freedom. Republic. Due to the rebellion of José Tomás Boves in 1814 In the meantime, he was mostly cared for by his nurse, a black and the fall of the republic, he returned to New Granada, where slave woman named Hipólita, whom he later called "the only he then commanded a force for the United Provinces and entered mother I have known." His instructor Don Simón understood Bogotá in 1814, recapturing the city from the dissenting republican the young Bolívar's personality and inclinations, and tried from forces of Cundinamarca. He intended to march into Cartagena the very beginning to be an empathetic friend. They took long and enlist the aid of local forces in order to capture Royalist walks through the countryside and climbed mountains. Don Santa Marta. In 1815, after a number of political and military Simón taught Bolívar how to swim and ride horses, and, in disputes with the government of Cartagena, however, Bolívar the process, taught him about liberty, human rights, politics, fled to Jamaica, where he was denied support and an attempt history, and sociology. was made on his life, after which he fled to Haiti, where he was Military career granted sanctuary and protection. He befriended Alexandre When Bolívar was fourteen, his private instructor and mentor Pétion, the leader of the newly independent country, and Simón Rodríguez had to abandon the country, as he was accused petitioned him for aid. of being involved in a conspiracy against the Spanish government In 1816, with Haitian soldiers and vital material support (on the in Caracas. Thus, Bolívar entered the military academy of the condition that he abolish slavery), Bolívar landed in Venezuela Milicias de Veraguas, which his father had directed as colonel and their forces captured Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar) after years earlier. Through these years of military training, he defeating the counter-attack of . However, developed his fervent passion for armaments and military Venezuela remained a captaincy of Spain after the victory in strategy, which he later would employ on the battlefields of 1818 by in La Puerta battle. Bolívar decided that the wars of independence. A few years later, while in Paris, he would first fight for the independence of New Granada, to Bolívar witnessed the coronation of Napoleon in Notre Dame, gain resources of the vice royalty, intending later to consolidate and this majestic event left a profound impression upon him. the independence of Venezuela. From that moment he wished that he could emulate similar triumphant glory for the people of his native land. El Libertador Bolívar returned to Venezuela in 1807. After the coup on April 19, 1810, Venezuela achieved de facto independence when the Supreme Junta of Caracas was established and the colonial administrators deposed. The Junta sent a delegation to Great Britain to get British recognition and aid. This delegation, which included Simón Bolívar and future Venezuelan notables Andrés Bello and Luis Lopez Mendez, met with and persuaded to return to his native land. In 1811 a delegation from the Supreme Junta, among them Bolívar, and a crowd of common people enthusiastically received Miranda in La Guaira. During civil war conducted by Miranda, Bolívar was promoted to colonel and made commandant of Puerto Cabello the following year in 1812. At the same time the royalist Frigate Captain Domingo de Monteverde was making Antonio José de Sucre, Scott 236, issud July 1, 1904 fast and vast advances into republican territory from the west, The campaign for the independence of New Granada was Bolívar lost control of San Felipe Fort along with its ammunition consolidated with the victory at the Battle of Boyacá in 1819. stores on June 30 of 1812. Deciding that the situation was lost, From this newly consolidated base of power, Bolívar launched Bolívar effectively abandoned his post and retreated to his outright independence campaigns in Venezuela and Ecuador, estate in San Mateo. and these campaigns were concluded with the victories at the Miranda also saw the republican cause as lost and signed in Battle of in 1821 and the Battle of Pichincha in 1822. San Mateo town a capitulation with Monteverde on July 25. On 7 September 1821 the (a state covering much Then Colonel Bolívar and other revolutionary officers claimed of modern Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, northern his actions as treasonous. In one of Bolívar's most morally Peru, and northwest Brazil) was created, with Bolívar as dubious acts, Bolívar and others arrested and handed Miranda president and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president. over to the Spanish Royal Army in La Guaira port. For his On 26 and 27 July 1822, Bolívar held the Guayaquil conference apparent services to the royalist cause, Monteverde granted with the Argentinian General José de San Martín, who had Bolívar a passport, and Bolívar left for Curaçao on August 27. received the title of Protector of Peruvian Freedom in August In 1813 he was given a military command in Tunja, New Grenada 1821 after having partially liberated Peru from the Spanish. (modern day Colombia), under the direction of the Congress Thereafter, Bolívar took over the task of fully liberating Peru. of United Provinces of New Grenada, which had formed out The Peruvian congress named him dictator of Peru on 10 of the juntas established in 1810. February 1824, which allowed Bolívar to reorganize completely This was the beginning of the famous Admirable Campaign. the political and military administration. Assisted by Antonio He entered Mérida on 24 May, where he was proclaimed as José de Sucre, Bolívar decisively defeated the Spanish cavalry El Libertador (The Liberator). That event was followed by the at the Battle of Junin on 6 August 1824. Sucre destroyed the occupation of on 9 June. Six days later, on 15 June, still numerically superior remnants of the Spanish forces at he dictated his famous Decree of War to the Death. Caracas Ayacucho on 9 December 1824. 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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.—Hal Borland Bolívar y Palacios married their maternal uncle, Dionisio By contrast, he referred to Spanish America as having been Palacios y Blanco, and had two children, Guillermo and Benigna. subject to the "triple yoke of ignorance, tyranny, and vice." If Guillermo Palacios died fighting alongside his uncle Simón in a republic could be established in such a land, in his mind, it the battle of La Hogaza on December 2, 1817. Benigna had two would have to make some concessions in terms of liberty. This marriages, the first to Pedro Briceño Méndez and the second to is shown when Bolívar blamed the fall of the first republic on Pedro Amestoy. Their great-grandchildren, Bolívar's closest his subordinates trying to imitate "some ethereal republic" and living relatives, Pedro, and Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa lived in the process, not paying attention to the gritty political reality in Caracas, as of 2009. The family still lives in Caracas today. of South America. His eldest sister, María Antonia, married Pablo Clemente Among the books accompanying him as he traveled were, Francia and had four children: Josefa, Anacleto, Valentina, and Adam Smith’s The wealth of Nations , Voltaire's Letters , and Pablo. María Antonia became Bolívar's agent to deal with his when he was writing the Bolivian Constitution, Montesquieu's properties while he served as president of Gran Colombia and Spirit of the Laws . His Bolivian constitution placed him within she was executrix of his will. She retired to Bolívar's estate in the camp of what would become Latin American conservatism Macarao, which she inherited from him. in the later nineteenth century. The Bolivian Constitution His older brother, Juan Vicente, who died in 1811 on a diplomatic intended to establish a lifelong presidency and a hereditary senate, mission to the United States, had three children born out of wedlock essentially recreating the British unwritten constitution, as it whom he recognized: Juan, Fernando Simón, and Felicia Bolívar existed at the time, without formally establishing a monarchy. Tinoco. Bolívar provided for the children and their mother after It was his attempts to implement a similar constitution in Gran his brother's death. Bolívar was especially close to Fernando Colombia that led to his downfall and rejection by 1830. and in 1822 sent him to study in the United States, where he Freemasonry attended the University of Virginia. In his long life, Fernando Similarly to some others in the history of American Independence had minor participation in some of the major political events (George Washington, Benito Juárez, José de San Martin, Bernardo of Venezuelan history and also traveled and lived extensively O’Higgins and Francisco Miranda), Simón Bolívar was a throughout Europe. He had three children, Benjamín Bolívar Freemason. He was initiated in 1803 in the Masonic Lodge Gauthier, Santiago Hernández Bolívar, and Claudio Bolívar Lautaro which operated in Cadiz, Spain. It was in this lodge Taraja. Fernando died in 1898 at the age of 88. that he first met some of his revolutionary peers, such as José de San Martin. In May 1806 he was conferred the rank of Master Mason in the "Scottish Mother of St. Alexander of Scotland" in Paris. During his time in London, he frequented "The Great American Reunion" lodge in London, founded by Francisco de Miranda. In April 1824, Simón Bolívar was given the 33rd degree of Inspector General Honorary.

Simón Bolívar, Scott 283, issued in 1925.

Political beliefs Simón Bolívar, by an anonymous painter c. 1829, Scott C948, issued in 1966. Simón Bolívar was an admirer of both the American and the French Revolutions. In fact, George Washington and Bolívar Political legacy shared the same objective: independence for their people and Due the historical relevance of Bolivar as a key element during the establishment of democratic states. Bolívar admired both the process of independence in Hispanic America, his memory Washington and Thomas Jefferson and sent his nephew to study has been strongly attached to sentiments of nationalism and at the University of Virginia, which was founded and designed patriotism, being a recurrent theme of rhetoric in politics, more by Jefferson. Bolívar differed, however, in political philosophy notably in Venezuela. For instance, the left-wing political from the leaders of the revolution in the United States on two movement led by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela makes the memory, important matters. First of all, he was staunchly anti-slavery, image and writing legacy of Bolívar an important part of its despite coming from an area of Spanish America that relied political message and agenda from a socialist perspective. Since heavily on slave labor. Second, while he was an admirer of the the image of Bolívar became an important part to the national American independence, he did not believe that its governmental identities of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and system could function in Latin America. Thus, he claimed that Bolivia, his mantle is often claimed by Hispanic American the governance of heterogeneous societies like Venezuela "will politicians all across the political spectrum. Bolivia and Venezuela (the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) are both named after Bolívar. require an infinitely firm hand." Bolívar felt that the US had been established in land especially fertile for democracy. From the internet.-ed. Page 6 San Jose Stamp Club Newsletter ~ December 2014

The Judges critique.

Boy Scouts working towards their Stamp Collecting Merit badges.

View of the Awards Dinner

President Brian Jones presenting Howard Petschel Whately for it.—Richard looking day with the Certificate of Appreciation.

Cub Scouts enjoying the Youth Table and the free stamps.

Members of the India Stamp Study group. Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all will spend you and in the anmorning, Losehour

Dave Gilman overseeing the youth table.

Quiet! Judges at work... SJSC hospitality area.

San Jose Stamp Club Newsletter ~ December 2014 Page 7 DECEMBER MEETING IS ON THE 3RD Show Calendar JANUARY MEETINGS ARE ON THE 7TH & 21ST ——————————— December 6 - 7 Penpex 1400 Roosevelt Avenue, Redwood City Parking Sat 10 - 5:30, Sun 10 - 4 Grass area with flag Free Parking - Free Admission Main building ———————— 790 Ironwood Drive January 3 - 4 Sacramento Stamp Fair Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H Street, Sacramento Sat 10 - 6, Sun 10 - 4 ———————— January 17 - 18 Great American Stamp Expo Napredak Hall, 770 Montague Expressway, San Jose Sat 10 - 6, Sun 10 - 4 ———————-

The San Jose Post Card Club meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (excepting July & August) in the Hilltop Manor dining room at 7 pm. Visit the SJSC website at: filatelicfiesta.org

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Maldives 496-501 MNH UPU sheetlets of 6 32.00+-20.00 Jim Sauer 408.445.2694 ~ [email protected] As a SJSC member you may advertise here—so why don’t you? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Walt Kransky’s website has changed: BUYING STAMPS, COVERS, POST CARDS, POSTAL Many new postcards and philatelic material added including CARDS, DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPHS —What have you? checklist additions. Douglas Gary, (Serving Collectors since 1950 and Filatelic Website: http:www.thepostcard.com/walt/ Fiesta Dealer since 1960). P. O. Box 457, Campbell, CA 95009 E-mail Walt at [email protected] Phone: (408) 274-3939. E-mail: [email protected]. Please use the word “POSTCARD QUERY” in the subject ASDA, NSDA and APS Dealer Member. line of your e-mail message to avoid spam. Thank you. These advertised items are available to anyone.