The Annual Key and Telegraph symposium was

chaired by Canadian Collector Murray Willer:(8KB)

The session began with the presentation of awards for outstanding contributions to knowledge in the field of Telegraph to:

Murray Willer:(10KB)
and to

Roger Reinke:(9KB)

After the initial excitement of the pre-dawn hunt for exotic keys, several collectors gathered for a group photograph.

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(Left-to-Right) Tony Rogozinsky, Gil Schlehman, Peter Malvasi, Tom French, Brad Wilson, Tom Perera, Doug Palmer, and Greg Raven.

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Peter Malvasi, Roger Reinke, Tom Perera, and Gil Schlehman sitting around Roger's wonderful display of early land-line equipment.

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Gil Schlehman and Bill Holly standing in front of Tom Perera's 45 foot long display of telegraph equipment.

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Tom Perera's travelling telegraph museum on the road. Air-filled bags inside the rear springs help keep things level.

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Greg Raven photographing some of Roger Reinke's keys.

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a day's purchases and trades spread out on the bedspread of one of the motel rooms.

I hope that we will see YOU at next year's meet !!

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Professor Tom Perera
Montclair State University

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