Newsletter.

[caligula]

I got to see the newsletter on the Chicago convention and it's awesome. Both Sam Addison and Kenny Loveland have turned out a work of art.

Thanks guys,
Alex Taber.

 

[kirbyvertibles]

Yes it was great! Thank you guys

 

[caligula]

A huge thank you to Sam Addison.

As many of you know, I created the first newsletter, but what you most likely don't know, is that I had no idea what I was doing for several months. The main objective was to get information to the handful of members and provide them with a way to interconnect. In fact the V.C.C.C. wasn't even our official name, it was to be used untill john Lucia and I thought up a better one. Fortunately that never happened and we kept it.

Our knowledge of graphics, and so on was non existant, we set our sights on education. We were also mock history professors, digging deep into what little info there was to tap into.

When I met Sam at the convention I knew he was the right man for this, I liked what he showed us at the main meeting, and I like it even more now. Kenny Loveland was another one I spoke with at the convention, and his ideas are fresh and new, but he also holds to traditions John Lucia and I established.

There's a lot more to comment on, but as most of you have not yet read the newsletter I'll hold off for now. Suffice it to say that the V.C.C.C. board made the right choice, and I for one could not be happier.

Alex Taber.

 

[caligula]

Hi Kirbyvertibles.

The article on you is fantastic, but I'll hold off on comments till members read the newsletter. By the way, mom says hi.

Alex Taber.

 

[kloveland]

Newsletter

Sam Addison is our newsletter editor now. We were going to mail it out and I was going to assist Sam with that. The newsletter would have cost a great deal to print out in color. So we decided to go ahead and email this latest one to our members. Sam used complex graphics and the newsletter would have not looked professional in black and white.

Thanks Sam for all of your hard work!

And thanks Alex for your kind words! I mean what I say and say what I mean

 

[caligula]

To Kenny and Sam.

I know the work and expence it takes to put out our newsletters, after all I did it alone for 10 years and after 93 with a little help from Charles Richard Lester (editor.) If either of you need my help I'm here, just ask me.

 

[vacfan6384]

Thank You Alex for your Kind Words.

Thank You Alex for your kind words. I worked very hard on this newsletter as I do with all my graphic projects and hope to land a good job doing publication work. I am still on the hunt and really want to get my feet in the professional level of graphic design. If any one ever wants to or is curious about seeing some of my portfolio you can visit my personal graphic website. http://samaddison.com/ Besides the newsletter I am proud that my former professor is going to display two of my projects in the college library!

 

[caligula]

Hi Sam:

I knew when I watched your presentation that you were right for the V.C.C.C. I also know the work involved.

From the very begining John Lucia and I asked the members to kick in with ideas, questions and human interest stories, with the exception of one man, that fell on deaf ears. And that one man was the late Craig Long, he provided us with all manner of things from Electrolux to Kenmore.

I started out wanting to share the otherwise useless knowledge in my head, and through trial and eror turned out the newsletters. I know all too well the task of editing, typesetting, and creating the newsletter, but you have skills I only dreamed of. John Lucia and I shared what we had in a time when no other company but Hoover talked to us, and yes, I was a training manger for Kirby. History was a dirty word, the next sale was all that mattered, so I rehashed the history of Kirby, Electrolux, and the early electric machines time after time.

You have given the newsletter a new look, and dazzle the eye with flashy colors, bold new ideas and I know it will look great on coffee tables, not simply stacked with vacuum paperwork, and instruction books. You, Kenny and others are the new blood this club needs, and I for one am proud to have you here. And I will help you all I can.

And this was our original logo, an abstract of a British non electric, from 1890, the Baby Daisy, created of the club when it was only two months old. The graphic artist was Liz Krammes, daughter of Stacy Krammes, Director of the Hoover Historical Center in North Canton, Ohio.

Thank you for a job well done.
Alex Taber.