V. P. REVIEW of 2008

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VICE PRESIDENTS' CORNER

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year's eve. Speaking of Christmas, we should all give a cheer for Bev Popp. She arranged a wonderful Christmas party. The food was excellent, the bingo was fun & above all the camaraderie was the best!!.

Let's talk about the February meeting. We will be having our "eat in style" potluck lunch. The club will provide the chicken and everyone else will bring their favorite dish to pass. And don't forget you can bring a friend....or two.

Our A-Z pattern will be Indiana Glass Company's Tea Room by George Miller. Tea Room is a hard to find pattern. It'll be nice to see the different pieces to this pattern. The elegant pattern will be Beverly by Bev Kennett. The Fostoria Glass Company produced Beverly. I wonder why Bev picked this pattern to collect?

This month's program and display will be on baskets and to be directed by our very able member, Jeff Morrow. We ask that you all bring in different baskets - your favorite or your best buy basket. It'll be fun to see all the different sizes and colors of DG & elegant baskets. Most of the glass companies made baskets, let's try to have a representative basket from each company. Please mark your basket with your name and the glass maker.

Try to keep warm.... Just think after our February meeting will be our glass show and then spring.

Keep thinking warm thoughts.

John Schleinzer & Rose Roth

RECAP of the past GENERAL MEETING / CHRISTMAS PARTY......

The buffet dinner at the Fisherman's Inn began after the business meeting was closed. The views over the grounds and lake were spectacular! There was a good variety of foods to choose from and the restaurants, signature "pop-overs" were a hit! As usual there was an abundance of desserts brought in from the club members and Bev had to continually rearrange the plates of goodies to fit more on the small table provided.

Bev P. also tried a new system for voting on the "Best Find of the Year." She passed out four slips of paper to each person. After viewing all the entries, everyone would place one slip next to their vote in each category, to be counted at the end. When the final votes were in, these were the results. . .

Elegant Glass

1.   Cambridge "Rosepoint" ball pitcher and two stems - Beverly K.

2.   Heisey "Kohinoor" double candelabra with prisms - Darcel T.

3.   Heisey "Narrow Flute" covered mustard - Ken P.

Rare Glass

1.   Imperial stretch "Floral and Optic" footed cake plate - Ken P.

2.   Imperial Birthday cake plate with candle holders - Karen S.

Under $10

1.   "Inverted Fan and Feather" slag punch cup - Ken P.

2.   Heisey "Twist" handled plate in the rare color, marigold - Gail C.

A to Z patterns - there were no entries.

Ken P. also tried his hand at shaking up the routine by gift wrapping the five raffle prizes and making us choose a prize unseen. The winners included Marge U., Larry D., Irene O. David T. and Ellen C.
The Dirty Bingo games this year were the hit as usual! They progressed a little more quickly due to the closing timeline we were under by the restaurant, but that did not hinder the fun. The first to call Bingo was Nick L., he chose the Duncan Miller sandwich salver.
The first prize stolen was taken by Ken P., he stole the gravy boat. Halla K. was a good sport when Marge U., who was helping run the "number calling" table, asked Halla to deliver the prize she was stealing from her to Marge. Was it a little fishy that Marge won twice in a row?! The set of Hazel Marie weatherman books were the prize stolen the most often, being chosen five times, only one more than the gravy boat and platter were taken. Surprisingly, Marilyn H. had the books stolen from her twice, but both times, she was eventually able to win and steal them back, in time to carry them home with her. What determination! The final game, an all card cover-up, was won by Cindy S.. She stole the Fenton Vasa vase. The "Most Excited" reward, if we were to give one out, may have had to go to Halla K. for her surprised scream of delight as her raffle ticket was called for a winning poinsettia!

The prizes and final winners are as follows. . .

Fenton Vasa vase - Cindy S.

Paden City "Popeye and Olive" red four place settings - Kris K.

Heisey decorated "Lariat" hurricane lamp - Bette W.

Hazel Atlas "Florentine" yellow gravy boat and liner - Irene H.

Hocking "Miss America" pink candy jar - Diane R.

Cambridge "Wildflower" gold trimmed console set - Marge U.

Murano jumping fish figurine - Gail C.n

Set of 2 Hazel Marie Weatherman identification guides - Marilyn H.

Fostoria "Seascape" pink square bowl - Jeanne Z.

New Martinsville "Moondrops" red creamer and sugar bowl set with tray - Jean P.

Duncan Miller "Sandwich" footed salver - Jeanne L.

Westmoreland "String of Pearls" cheese and cracker set - Maggie S.

Respectfully Submitted,
Beverly K. / General Meeting Secretary

A WORD FROM OUR CLUB LIBRARIAN'S................

ALL BOOKS MUST BE RETURNED AT THE FEBRUARY MEETING FOR THE SHOW IN MARCH!

If you are not going to be at the February meeting, please arrange to get the books there or to a friend who is coming to the meeting. We need time to organize the books, separate duplicates and make sure the books are in or the SHOW.

Please sign-up to work at the Show-the Identification/library tables and Hospitality tables will need workers to make this Show a success.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Nancy L. AND DAVID T.

Remember our Library listing is on the internet: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/20s30s40s

THE 2010 ORLAND PARK LIBRARY GLASS DISPLAY.....CALLING ALL MEMBERS!

As part of the Orland Park Libraries Outreach Program, the 20-30-40s Glass Society of Illinois will once again be providing a display of Depression Era Glassware.This will be the fourth year that the society has provided a display. The 2010 glassware display is schedule for the months of May and June. The display will again be as you enter the library in the main foyer.

By providing this display it helps the society to fulfill its' main purpose in educating the public about the history of the American Glass Companies and the importance of continuing its' preservation.This is an excellent way to gain exposure for our club so that we can attain new members and new collectors which helps to keep our organization alive and growing.

There are 8 display cases each having 4 - 3 foot shelves that need to be filled.My plan is to have eight Glassware Companies represented in each case, each having their own case. The glassware manufacturers that I would like to have represented are: Hocking, Jeannette, Federal, Hazel Atlas, MacBeth-Evans, Indiana, Imperial and Westmoreland Glass Companies.

I am hoping to get enough members from our club to volunteer a piece or two (or more) from their own personal collections to help to make this display have good representation of each manufacturers patterns and colors.To keep things simple I would like to ask that If you would like to provide pieces of your glassware that you please bring them to the General Meeting in April 2010.Each member who provides their glassware will need to identify their pieces and sign a waiver provided by the Orland Park Library...............................

If you would like to volunteer some of your pieces of glassware for this display please call me at:

630-975-0916 or email me at: bettyannsantiques@comcast.net.

Yours in Glass Collecting,
Valerie V.

WELCOME TO THE NEW AGE OF CAMEO GLASS

For those of you who were not on last year's club bus trip, I would like to introduce you to Mini Cameo's, the new editions created by Kelsey Murphy and her partner Robert Bomkamp. Some of you might be familiar with Kelsey and Robert Bomkamp, as they did present a program approximately three years ago at one of our general meetings. Back to the mini cameos. These blanks standing about 4 1/2" to about 6" are blown by Ron Hinkle, who owns the Dying Art Glass Co. in Buchkanna, WV. They are blown from Fenton Burmese cullet.

Ron coats the vases with powdered glass of a different color while he is blowing the vases and heats them in the glory hole. The powdered glass would not become a part of the surface unless the base glass is at least 1800 degrees. The blower must take great pains in order to coat the surface evenly each time it is reheated for the next coating and the glass ball at that temperature is the consistency of cold honey so the coating as to be applied without collapsing the air inside. This process is repeated six times until the glass is thick enough to be carved. It is a difficult process and takes quite a long time to complete.

After the mini cameos are cooled Kelsey and Bob masks them with whatever design the two of them decides to produce. All of the designs they use are created by both of them. Once the cameos are masked the carving begins. This is done by sand blasting. That is when sand is blown at the glass with such force that it cuts away the glass that is not covered by the mask. Some of these patterns are beautifully iridized. All in all the process, from beginning when the blank is blown to the end when it is completed, is quite a complicated procedure.

Some of these little gems are a one of a kind, while other patterns are included in a tiny edition. All are signed Kelsey/Bomkamp/ Made In Heaven.

We have a limited amount of these Mini Cameo Vases left and presently are available for purchase at this time. Kelsey Murphy's and Robert Bomkamp's Cameo artistry has become very collectable since their start at Pilgrim Glass, plus adding these new Mini Cameo's to their glass Cameo's Designs, should help continue to enhance Kelsey Murphy and Robert Bomkamp Cameo's value in the future, as they have in the past, making these two American glass artisans a wonderful Artistic Investment.

EDDIE & NEIL U.