37 12 W. SCENIC AVE., MEQUON, WISCONSIN 53092
Phone: (262) 242-3 13 1 OR E-mail: Bedvibr8or@ao l.com
Hello to all of you and welcome to al l of the new members. We have been averaging about one new member a
week this year and we are all glad you decided to join the club.
One member recently told me that what he liked most about our club is that it is INCLUSIVE and NOT EX-
CLUSIVE. He appreciated that all members were we lcome at all of our events. He liked being welcome and
wanted. I think we all like that feeling. Keep up the good work.
It has only been ten short years since we lost our best coin-op historian and writer, Richard M. Bueschel. Dick's
multitude of books and magazine articles continue to inspire and educate all coin operated machine collectors.
During those ten years, what started as a group of guys swapping stories in front of the elevators at the Pheasant
Run Hotel has grown to 622 members. In 2001 we pub lished our first color magazine and launched our website.
We will hold our fifth annual convention in New York City this September. I know that Dick is looking down at
all of us with pride and guiding us to that next great find.
Doug Cain, Treasurer, has set up a PayPal account which will be available for next year's dues payments due in
November of 2008. An email will be sent to all members in September with information about this new option.
This wi II also serve as a test of the emai I addresses on file. We currently do not have emai I addresses for 149
members and know that many others need to be updated. Anyone wishing to receive email from the club needs
to make sure their email address is on file and correct by sending an email to Doug at coinop.doug@gmail.com
Your email address will NOT be published and we promise not to spam you. We will also be asking you to update
all of your contact information this fall when we send out the dues invoices. By updating your information now
we hope to send out as many invoices as possible via email to help offset the cost of Pay Pal.
Thanks to the Blaus, Cains, and Ernsters for helping with our very successful April dinner meeting and to fea-
tured speaker Marshall Fey. We plan to continue this format on Friday November 14 at the Hilton Garden Inn ,
St. Charles IL. Check our website later this summer for full fall meeting details. Special room rates at the Hilton
are $95 single and $98 double. Call the hotel at 630-584-0700 and identify yourself as a COCA member to get
these rates.
I'd also like to thank all of our magazine advertisers. Without them our magazine could not be published.
Please support our advertisers!
If you have any questions or comments p lease contact me via the email COCA's President section in the discus-
sion forum or call me at 919-304-4455 from 8A.M to 8 P.M Eastern.
Bi 11 Petrochuk
COCA President
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