OFFICERS INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS CHAPTER OFFICERS PRESIDENT NO. CALIFORNIA Bob Rosencrans Pres.: Howard Koff. 36 Hampden Rd. Vice Pres.: Phil McCoy Upper Darby, PA 19082 Sec.: Dick Reutlinger Treas.: Bill Wherry VICE PRESIDENT Reporter: Stuart Hunter Richard Drewniak 191 Capen Blvd. SO. CALIFORNIA AMICA MEMBERSHIP RATES: Amherst, NY 14226 Pres.: Prentiss Knowlton Vice Pres.: Elliott N. 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Jnfernafional JlcfJ(JfBJl 1977 AMICA CONVENTION IN MEMORIUM ED nOR I S NOTE: CHARLES F. "TOO" CARNES This issue of the Bulletin deals primarily with the Died July 24, 1977 - Oakland California. September 1-4 AMICA Convention just concluded in San AMICA Treasurer' 1965-70. Avid collector Francisco. On top of expending super-human effort in of pianos and rolls. putting it all together, I asked the Convention Com­ mittee to speed all convention write-ups to me so I could publish them in the October issue. Since my EUGENE EBRIGHT deadline is the 10th, that really was asking a lot! But they came through marvelously - everything got Eugene Ebright, an AMICA member of Joplin, covered, and some things even got covered twice! This was killed in a private plane crash on left me with the dilemma: which article do I publish? Thursday, August 18. 1977. Besides Eugene's Couple all this with the fact that I was out of town interest in flying, he was an avid AMICA for 5 days attending a publisher's conference at the member and was one of the dedicated members deadline time - well, you can understand why the Bul­ that helped with the 1976 Mini-Convention letin is a little late. My apologies to those who in Joplin. wrote duplicate articles. In most cases, the first one received was the one printed because it was usual­ ly typed and ready for paste-up by the time the second one arrived. In a few instances I used the longer ar­ COMPUTER INFORMATION NEEDED ticle. But I want to thank all of you for your work and for the job you did on the convention. It was Any member who has computer time available, either tremendous! free or for a fee, to process the AMICA membership file please contact - David Gaudieri, 30 Walnut Pk., Rochester. NY 14622 - The machine must be an IBM S/360 or S/370 runnir'9 standard OS/360 or OS/VS WINE TASTING PARTY and PL/ I. OPENS CONVENTION FESTIVITIES BY FRANK LOOB Bulletin Cover; This month's cover was taken When it was decided to do a \,ine tasting at the AMICA from the 1977 AMICA Convention brochure design Convention in San Francisco, Christian Brothers in prepared by Mel Luchetti. Napa Valley was contacted and they very obligingly decided to conduct a wine tasting for us using some AMICA CONVENTION: of their premium wines. Wine tasting party 180 Friday technical sessions 181 Victorian house tour 182 Robert Armbruster concert 183 Ursula Deitrich-Hollinshead concert 183 Edwin Lester lecture 184 Social Notes (Alice B. Ampico) 184 Carillon to Ampichron 186 Saturday technical sessions 187 Convention Report - overview 188 Tom Hazleton concert 192 Ralston Mansion tour 192 Eubie Blake concert 193 Social Notes (Doris Duoart) 193 Ruth Bingaman Smith concert 194 Flora Mora concert 195 Dennis Condon film 195 Frank Denke concert 196 Jarod Clark open house 196 ROLLS & MUSIC 198 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 199 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 200 TEXAS 201 MIDWEST 202 SOWNY 203 TECHNICALITIES 205 Some of the wine tasting display set out by the representatives of Christian Brothers. - 180 - Jnfernafionat JlJKJ(8Jl .tt..,---.. Behind the scenes, Dick Reutlinger had his own unique The contingent from Christian Brothers consisting problems getting the local California Alcohol Bever­ of the able Randy Vahanian and his co-worker, Mel age Control-representative to allow the wine tasting Palmer arrived promptly at 6 P.M. just as the cable to be held in his home. Finally a phone call to car buses started discharging the first merry throng Sacra,mento to the "head people" straightened out the of conventioneers from the hotel. The wine tasting problem and we got the final OK about three days tables were gaily decorated with bunches of grapes before the date of I September. and display bottles of the wine to be tasted. The Victorian home was immaculate from top to bottom and while the wine was being poured our members wandered through the home "oohing" and "aahing" over the im­ peccably restored interior of Dick's home with all its lovely furnishings. The dining room tables contained hors' d'oeuvres and a selection of delectable cheeses to accompany the wine. Diane Hayden, our hostess for the evening chose the cheeses with excellent taste to be just "right" for the wine. The wines served were two whites; Johannisberg Reisling and a Fume Blanc; two reds, a Gamay Noir and a Cabernet Sauvignon and a very new just released LaSalle Rose. All of this delicious combination of food, wine, comraderie among members and a superb setting for such an occasion contributed to a truly gala beginning for a truly memorable convention. At the outside stairs to Dick Reutlinger's home ­ Isadora Koff ascending. - Sally Lawrence chose the Cable Car buses to shuttle the convention goers from the San Franciscan Hotel to Dick's home at 824 Grove street which is our ~lICA Headquarters in San Francisco and co-incidentally the site of our first museum.