Farewell Message
In 1968, four enthusiastic
World’s Fair enthusiasts got together and formed the World’s Fair Collectors
Society. They were, alphabetically, Ed Orth, Mike Pender, Peter Warner and Ernest Weidhass. For the
past 38 years the FAIR NEWS has been a way that members of the WFCS could be
brought up to date on the activities relating to World’s Fair throughout the
world. During this period of time we
have had 2839 people join the Society at one time or another.
During the majority of time
Mr. Pender has served as editor of FAIR NEWS (ably assisted by his very
proficient wife, Fran). It is now time
for Mr. Pender to retire from this very time consuming task.
We want to thank all of the people
who have been members of WFCS for their dedicated interest and for the never
ending flow of material which has been used to keep the membership up to
date. At the moment we know of only two
World Expositions on the calendar for upcoming years. These are Expo 2008 in
We note that there are at
least three other newsletters currently being published by other groups. They are:
Trans-Miss News, published by
the Trans-Mississippi Exposition Historical Association,
World’s Fair Bulletin,
published by the 1904 World’s Fair Society,
2605
Causeway,
Pan American Herald, published
by the Pan-American 1901 Exposition Club,
Other sources include:
http://www.peacethroughunderstanding.org/