‘Stamp Club to carry on’

     

Courtesy GWMSC

The stamp club brethren chatting before the meeting in February.

The George Washington Masonic Stamp Club lives on, according to a note from Walter Benesch, immediate past president. Walter led the group for almost the entire last 30 years, and indicated that the club would fold unless others met the challenge of providing direction into the future. They hosted their annual meeting February 20 where Stefan Benjamin Dodson was elected president for this two-year term.

Walter tells me the new president is almost half Walter’s age, and that the new webmaster has assumed the duties of cachet master as well. “A major turn-over,” he says, “but all positive.”

Masonic philately is not what it used to be. I think the George Washington Club is the last remaining Masonic stamp club in the country. It meets every February at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia, where it confers the Master of Philately Degree on its members. Life membership costs $20.