Jan 16, 2016 | Sequoia Stamp Club
By Marsha Brandsdorfer In A History of America in Thirty-Six Postage Stamps, author Chris West explains that before stamps, postage was paid by recipients. In 1840, England introduced the Penny Black stamp as a means for the sender to prepay the postage instead. The...
Dec 7, 2015 | Sequoia Stamp Club
It is with a sad heart that we inform you that two Youth Area volunteers passed away recently. LeRoy Bertsch passed after a short illness on October 11, 2015. Darlene Hickok passed away on November 27, 2015 after a long battle with cancer. Darlene founded the Stamps R...
Oct 25, 2015 | Sequoia Stamp Club
by Marsha Brandsdorfer John F. Kennedy, aka “Jack,” was born May 29, 1917 in Brookline, MA, to a wealthy family. As a young man, he went to Harvard University, and injured his back during football practice. Jack had two back surgeries in his later years, to try and...
Jul 27, 2015 | Sequoia Stamp Club
Hideo joined the Sequoia Stamp Club in 2004. He is not able to attend meetings due to family obligations, but he is a regular attendee at PENPEX and other stamp shows. At the most recent WESTPEX show he was awarded a medal honoring his 50-year membership in the...
Jul 7, 2015 | Sequoia Stamp Club
Kristin Patterson received a call from Dorothy Pilkington to inform us that Rick Richardson had passed away on April 26, 2015, while in hospice care. He was 88 years old. Rick and Dorothy lived in Hayward but moved to Yreka, CA over 10 years ago where they built a...
Jun 10, 2015 | Sequoia Stamp Club
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco. It was nothing short of a miracle that it even took place having to overcome the Great Earthquake of 1906 and the shadow of World War I hanging over the...
