[QCWA] Happy 65th Birthday, QCWA

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                                                                                 HAPPY 65th BIRTHDAY, QCWA  It all began during a 10-meter roundtable on Friday evening, November 14, 1947. Six of the roundtable participants, John DiBlasi, W2FX; Uda Ross, W2UD; John Gioe, W2FD; Edwin S. Crane, W2EF; Dr. Ernest Cyriax, W2DI; and Irving R. Groves, W2DX (Our Founding Fathers), decided they should form an organization for Amateur Radio operators who had been licensed twenty-five years or more.  An organizational meeting was held December 5, 1947, with 34 old timers in attendance. Officers elected were; John DiBlasi, W2FX, President; George Droste, W2IN, Vice President; Leon Hansen, W2FIT, Secretary and David Talley, W2PF, Treasurer.   The QCWA name was proposed by Frank Lester, W2AMJ (later W4AMJ), and the logo was adapted by Otto Eppers, W2EA (a commercial artist), from a cartoon that accompanied an article in an issue of QST. The article was on "Rotten QRM" by Hiram Percy Maxim, "The Old Man" himself. When charter enrollment closed on December 31, 1947, there were fifty-four charter members. With the passing of Ralph Hasslinger, W2CVF, on March 27, 2008, all Charter Members had become Silent Keys. Today there are thousands of QCWA members.  73, Jeff 
 QCWA
Quarter Century Wireless Association
Jeff Beals, WA4AW National Director &
QCWA Historian
 Palm Beach Chapter 111
 Secretary-Treasurer
PO Box 1584Loxahatchee, FL 33470-1584561-252-6707wa4aw at qcwa.org www.qcwa.org    
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