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News SCOPEVol. 30 No. 1 A newsletter for designers, collectors and lovers of kaleidoscopes Winter 2015 25. 2015 – Covington, KY: The Art of Kaleidoscopes: May 28‐31 24. 2014 – Sacramento, CA: Konstrucon Juncon 23. 2013 – Freeport, ME: Kaleidoscopes: Reflecons in History 22. 2012 – Atlanta, GA: I’d Like to Buy the World a Scope 21. 2011 – Covington, KY: Happy Colors 20. 2010 – Santa Clara, CA: Kaleidoscope Reflecons 19. 2007 ‐ Charleston, SC: Light Waves 18. 2006 ‐ Albuquerque, NM: Fiesta of Color 17. 2005 ‐ Nashville, TN: Convergence 2005 (Symmetry & Harmony) 16. 2004 ‐ Portland, OR: Highlands Rendezvous 15. 2003 ‐ Asheville, NC: Brewster Blueridge Reunion 14. 2002 ‐ New Orleans, LA: Kaleidoscope Karnival 13. 2001 ‐ San Diego, CA: Kaleidoscope Jubilee 12. 2000 ‐ Davenport, IA: Kaleidofest‐2000 11. 1999 ‐ Kennebunkport, ME: Waves of Color 10. 1998 ‐ Orlando, FL: Kaleido Galaxy 9. 1997 ‐ Seale, WA: World of Color 8. 1996 ‐ Corning, NY: Kaleido‐Magic 7. 1995 ‐ Chicago, IL: Brewster 95 6. 1994 ‐ San Francisco, CA: Convenon 94 5. 1993 ‐ Louisville, KY: Brewster Society Convenon V 4. 1992 ‐ Rockville, MD: Brewster Society Convenon IV 3. 1991 ‐ Louisville, KY: Brewster Society Convenon III 2. 1990 ‐ Louisville, KY: Kaleidoscope Convenon II 1. April 28 – 30, 1989 ‐ Louisville, KY: Kaleidoscope Convenon River Cruise for 2015 Convenon 1 The Brewster Kaleidoscope Society Mission Statement: The Brewster Kaleidoscope Society is an organization which provides a forum for artists, collectors, and retailers to promote and perpetuate kaleidoscopes as a unique art form. NEW PASSWORD Brewster Kaleidoscope Society To access the Members Only PO Box 917, Wake Forest, NC 27588 Section on www.brewstersociety.com NEWS SCOPE is published quarterly Username: member2014 Password: 2014scopefan Membership & Yearly Subscription U.S. $60/yr ; $100/2yrs International $70/yr ; $120/2 yrs New User Name and Password System Renewal date is January 31 or 1 year from new sign-up The new Brewster Society website allows each member to BKS Board Members Hal Yeager (President) have their own personal listing to promote their art, store, Bob Ade (Vice President) and/or collecting passion for all things kaleidoscopes. Using Pat Seaman (Secretary) the beauty of the internet, you will be enabled to manage Sharon Sandstrom (Treasurer) your personal listing with an individual user name and Mary Boll (membership/convention) password. You cannot change your username in the future Emily Wert (newsletter) without losing all of the material you may have entered Debra Wilson (at large) associated with that username so choose wisely. By now Skip MacLaren (at large) you should have received an email with instructions for Junko Aragane (international) registering on the new website. If you did not receive this [email protected] email or other BKS emails please contact Mary Boll, www.brewstersociety.com membership chairperson at [email protected] or call 740-352-2310. Founder Cozy Baker (1923-2010) Call for BKS Board of Directors Nominations The Brewster Kaleidoscope Society operates as a non-profit corporation, which is managed and operated by a Board of Directors selected by the general membership of the Society. We are asking the membership to help us fill open positions in 2015 by nominating members or self nomination. The Board of Directors is comprised of nine (9) members. The term of office is 2 years. The Board of Directors meets monthly via teleconference. This year in 2015 the following six (6) board positions are up for election: President, Treasurer, Secretary, Convention Coordinator, Director at Large-International, Director at Large. The election will take place before the convention. The newly elected board members will be announced May 31, 2015 at the Brewster Kaleidoscope Society annual meeting held at the convention and on the website at brewstersociety.com. The new board members will officially take office effective July 1, 2015. The nominating committee is seeking nominations from the membership. Nominations will be accepted until April 20, 2015. The nominating committee members are Sharon Sandstrom [email protected] and Pat Seaman [email protected]. Nominations may be emailed to either Sharon or Pat, or mailed to Brewster Society, PO Box 917, Wake Forest, NC 27588 Remember : This is your newsletter. If you would at anytime wish to Please feel free to submit any interesting kaleidoscope related stories. This is the place to express your opinion —positive share your love of scopes and kaleidoscope experience with the rest of the membership. or negative, concerning any Please keep submissions more than 20 words and less than 500 words. Pictures are always activities of the BKS, please feel welcome, in color if possible. Pictures should be at least 2” x 2” and 300 dpi for best reproduction. We reserve the right to edit based on available spaceSubmit articles and free to contact any BKS board photos to [email protected] member. 2 BKS Membership News Highlights from The 2014 Brewster Membership as of December 29, Hal Yeager, 2014 represents over 425 BKS members with 345 BKS paid household memberships. We have 80 President memberships listed for couples and families. Over 162 members have been members for over 10 years It is again time to start thinking about with 70 new members this year. Our membership represents 133 artists, 32 retailers and 215 collectors. electing members to the Board of Directors. In 2013, we finished the year with 327 paid Read more about it on page 2. memberships. We currently have 231 members who have renewed for 2015. As often mentioned, we are an organization All current 2014 members, have had their renewal of volunteers and our success depends on date set for January 31. If you have not yet renewed members volunteering time and talents to for 2015, your membership will end January 31, formulate and achieve our goals and 2015. If you have renewed for 2015, your membership will be good until January 31, 2016. If objectives. you renewed for two years, your membership is good Pat Seaman and Sharon Sandstrom are through January 31, 2017. leading the nominating committee and will With the new website, you can sign up for auto- solicit members willing to serve the various renewal of your membership. You will receive an email notifying you that your membership will be positions that will be open. If you have an renewing with the credit card or account that you interest in serving please contact them. used with your last online renewal when you selected auto-renew. If there are no changes, your registered Hal Yeager account will be automatically charged for the renewal without interruption of your BKS membership. Please email me any changes in mailing addresses or emails and I will update our contact list or you may go online and update your profile yourself. Feel free to contact me if you are having any problems accessing the new website. If you are not getting emails from the BKS, please let us know your email and we will add you to our list. Please also remember that even though the computer is taking over many of the membership data chores there will Check out the new website! It is a great always be a human in charge, so if there are any start to sharing our love of kaleidoscopes membership problems, please contact me. with the world. It is only as good as we as ~ Mary Theresa Boll, BKS Membership/Convention Coordinator members make it. Provide feedback. Tell A fascinating link submitted by Shirley Ragsdale: us what you like or want to see available human kaleidoscope--"a constantly changing pattern or on the site. Help us by providing new sequence". Something artistically different.--E/T content, updated content and expansion of https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8oqPR5-GLuA?rel=0 content. Within the site you will find links 1990’s Kaleidoscope Collection for sale where you can tell us what you want and Mint Condition, many collector scopes, will sell individual where you can provide new content. scopes. Special Sale ** will entertain any offers ** Paul Larsen (865/932-6172/ [email protected]) 3 OFF TO COLLEGE WITH A KALEIDOSCOPE by Bob Coleberd Kaleidoscopes are customarily given as presents for birthdays, graduations, Kaleidoscope anniversaries, holidays and to those who serve us. Why not as a sendoff for freshmen going Myriad colors to college? Barbara and I had the pleasure of facets of life giving scopes to five students at our church, two glass disks First Presbyterian twirl around. Church, Granada Parallel planes Hills, CA. Three of independent, yet them are triplets: the connected through centers three M's--Megan, to the defining base. Melissa and Matthew Leo. How many Ever changing times have you seen triplets recently? Megan and Matt go to through movement Colgate University in New York, Melissa to together, at point in time, Whitworth University in Washington. Allie produce one view. Bolton goes to UC Santa Barbara and Micah But, no! Anthony to Westmont College, California Designer Chesnik, schools. Dormitory classmates handed the with other plans, scope have commented: fascinating, very cool. Perhaps these captured different perspectives. young scholars will experience the therapeutic value of the kaleidoscope. If they get uptight about tomorrow's exam they can pick One moment, two views, up the scope and it will experienced calm them down. yet not understood, separate us. Measured distance, immeasurable distance, through another prism in the base, concealed. © Joy Martin 2002 4 Meet your Board of Directors SKIP MACLAREN, Member-at-Large DEBRA WILSON, Member-at-Large I was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania as Frank MacLaren; later to practice Architecture professionally as F. Hazen MacLaren. I received a Bachelors of Art in Pre-Architecture and later a Bachelors of Architecture from Stanford University. After serving 4 years with the U.S.