The American Printing History Association

 2001 Letter to APHA Members

 Concerning the annual meeting and awards 

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December 1, 2001

Dear APHA Member:

Please mark your calendar: Our next annual meeting will be Saturday, January 26, 2002. It will begin at 2:00 p.m. in the Trustees Room of the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. We look forward to seeing you there.

At that meeting we will confer APHA's annual awards. The 2002 institutional award will go to the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, where sixteenth-century printer Christopher Plantin and several generations of his descendants are celebrated and remembered. Opened to the public in 1877, the museum has recently undertaken restoration and renovations. The APHA individual award for 2002 will be conferred posthumously upon Hugh Amory, retired Senior Rare Book Cataloger at Harvard University's Houghton Library and co-editor of The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, the first volume of the important collaborative publication, A History of the Book in America.

In January we will also elect officers and four trustees. The nominating committee has proposed the following excellent slate of officers: Martin Antonetti, President; Mark Samuels Lasner, Vice President for Programs (second term); Paul Romaine, Vice President for Membership; Mike Peich, Vice President for Publications; Jane Rodgers Siegel, Secretary (second term); Deirdre Stam, Treasurer. Proposed trustees, until January 2005, are Georgia Barnhill (second term), Martin Hutner, and Stephen Pekich. David Whitesell is nominated to complete Paul Romaine's term to January 2004.

Come to the meeting, too, to hear about APHA's newest monographic publication, a bibliography of the Spiral Press by Philip Cronenwett.

Despite a brief period of doubt about whether people would be in a mood to travel, APHA's splendidly successful annual conference took place at Washington University on October 19-21. Attendees also enjoyed a dinner at the St. Louis Art Museum and a tour, lecture, and brunch at the St. Louis Mercantile Library.

Please renew your membership promptly. I invite you to join the growing category of Contributing Members. One glance at the exciting list of premiums on the enclosed renewal envelope should be adequate enticement. Even more, I urge you to consider making a substantial contribution to APHA's permanent endowment. No gift is too large; none of any size will be refused.

Sincerely,

Irene Tichenor, President

Revision history: noted that Hugh Amory award is posthumous, January 9, 2002.

Also available online:

• "For Hugh from Roger at APHA, 26 Jan. 2002," speech of Roger Stoddard, Harvard University Library, in honor of Hugh Amory (1930-2001), winner of APHA's Individual Award, January 26, 2002.

• "The Plantin-Moretus Museum," speech of Dr. Francie de Nave, on behalf of the Museum, winner of APHA's Institutional Award, January 26, 2002.

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