The 2025 APA Daredevil Website is Now Up and Running!You can now view all the event information and make your online reservations and payment.
apa-letterpress.com/2025wayzgoose
Please review the hosting hotel information on the website and call them at your earliest convenience to reserve your room, as they are only accepting the discounted rates until March 1st!
With the new year, there are the usual roster changes.
Below are the current changes:
#1021: Sha Towers
The Green Pale Press
Woodway, Texas
#1024: Chase & Sandrine Hinshaw
Hyland Studio
Prescott, Arizona
#1022: Michael Rylander
Sweet Bippy Press
Petaluma, California
#1025: Landon Jones
LC Studio
Scottsdale, Arizona
#1023: Randy Newcomer
Dancing Rainbow Press
Ephrata, Pennsylvania
#1026: Amy Feiman
House Fourteen
Denver, Colorado
As we turn the page on another year and look toward 2025, I wanted to reach out to the membership and let those who may not have heard, that I will be your new APA Mailer for the monthly bundles starting in January.
I’d like to thank the Groves — Troy (TH) and Lisa for their work these past four years. Theirs will be a hard act to follow, but I hope to provide the same reliable service in keeping us all connected in print.
Nora Young, APA Mailer
4220 Chambers Street
Cincinnati, OH 45223-1826
Given that we had no competition for any of the offices and positions for the next board, we are happy to announce and welcome our 2025–2026 APA Board that will be taking the helm of our great organization. In long-standing tradition, there will be a peaceful transfer of power on January 1, 2025.
Many thanks to the current leadership who has guided the organization through recent years and kept us in good shape both with member activity and participation, but also in a sound financial position.
The new Board to lead our sometimes unruly but always creative bunch of letterpress printers is as follows:
2025-2026 Board of Directors |
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President: | Sven Olaf Nelson [#776] |
Vice-President: | Cathleen Cherry [#962] |
Secretary-Treasurer: | Lisa Groves [#911] |
Mailer: | Nora Young [#981] |
Senior Director [2021-2026]: | Denise El-Hoss [#970] |
Junior Director [2023-2028]: | Jessica Spring [#738] |
Freshman Director [2025-2030]: | Jeff Waldvogel [#876] |
Archivist [Appointed]: | Lauri Taylor [#860] |
Registrar [Appointed]: | Lance Williams [#785] |
We lost one of our Treasured Gems with the passing of Paul Aken on September 6th. Paul was one of the best among all of us passionate printers in the APA… a friend, a printer, a collector, a teacher, a mentor and an apostle of all things printing. To have known Paul was to have a very special friend; for those of us fortunate members, that meant decades of friendship, laughs and the wonderful booming sound of Paul’s distinctive voice!
A visit to his Platen Press Museum in Zion, Illinois, is like walking into King Tut’s tomb! Treasures packed into every inch of space, each with a story quickly relayed by Paul. He was a long-standing and proud member of the professional industry group, The Printing House Craftsmen, something we had in common. Paul’s professional career as a very dedicated high school printing shop teacher was evident in how he always gave away his knowledge to so many of our members, especially the younger newbies.
At the family’s request, you can honor Paul with a donation in support of the UW Stout Graphic Communications Program: www.uwstout.edu/support-us-stout-graphic. And if you have a favorite story of Paul, write it on a letterpress postcard and mail it to Irene Aken who attended so many of our Wayzgooses. She would love it!
Paul, you are one Printer’s Devil that will be missed down here but certainly enjoyed in heaven!
— Mark Barbour
2024 APA President