2025 APA Daredevil Wayzgoose Website Is Now Live!!

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.

You may access the website via either of these two links:

apa-letterpress.com/2025wayzgoose

apawayzgoose.com

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!

2025 Initial Membership Roster Changes…

Happy New Year, and Welcome to 2025.

With the new year, there are the usual roster changes.
Below are the current changes:


New Members Joining Our Ranks:

#1018: Brian Lee Clements
Stone Canopy Press
Altadena, California

#1021: Sha Towers
The Green Pale Press
Woodway, Texas

#1024: Chase & Sandrine Hinshaw
Hyland Studio
Prescott, Arizona


#1019: Kathy Clark Craig
Half the Moon Press
Columbia, South Carolina

#1022: Michael Rylander
Sweet Bippy Press
Petaluma, California

#1025: Landon Jones
LC Studio
Scottsdale, Arizona


#1020: Bruce Bannerman
Bannerman Industries
Culloden, West Virginia

#1023: Randy Newcomer
Dancing Rainbow Press
Ephrata, Pennsylvania

#1026: Amy Feiman
House Fourteen
Denver, Colorado

#1027:Larry Will
Rabbit Hole Press
Fountain Hills, Arizona
#1028: Gretchen Herbert
Vitruvian Press
Brownsburg, Indiana


Members Returning to Active Status:

#803: Ray Nichols & Jill Cypher
Lead Graffiti
Newark, Delaware

#920: Marie Oberkirsch
Central Print
St. Louis, Missouri

#975: Jeff Walgren
The Red Park Press
Ephrate, Pennsylvania


Members Moving to Inactive Status

#696: Billy Soucy
#748: Wayne Lee Schrunk
#782: Robert Giles
#789: John Deason

#923: Christopher Bayley
#951: Kate Askew
#959: Gwendolyn Holbrow
#982: Larry K. Johnson
#985: Breanna Frey

#986: Karen Sawyer-Meehan
#990: Gerald Schulze & Chen Li
#993: Kadin Henningsen
#1012: Kari McDonald


Members Who Passed During 2024:

#407: Gary T. Bossler
#567: Jim Hedges

#659: Paul Aken
#766: Melvin Arndt


New APA Mailer Address & Monthly Mailing Dates

Hello Fellow APA Members and Happy Holidays!!

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.


APA Bundle Submission Due By Dates for 2025
January 10th
April 11th
July 11th
October 10th
February 7th
May 9th
August 8th
November 7th
March 7th
June 6th
September 5th
December 5th

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.

SEND YOUR 2025 BUNDLE PIECES TO:

Nora Young, APA Mailer
4220 Chambers Street
Cincinnati, OH 45223-1826

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Merry Christmas to All and to All Great Monthly Bundles!!!

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Welcome to the 2025-2027 APA Board of Directors

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

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]


 

Celebration of Paul Aken, One of Our Finest Tramp Printers

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