The third planning meeting will be at Carol and Bill Petscavage's house (5 Potter Place, Milltown, NJ) on July 16 at 7:00 pm. You must attend to have your vote counted! Minutes of the first meeting were distributed to all members through the rpsmember e-mail system.

Themes next year will be weather, abstract, photojournalism and Nature (no hand of man, we are hosting this one for NJFCC)… order to be decided. One open will be devoted to any of the planned field trips. RPS will have 80 years under its belt this year but it is enthralling that old members leave and an army of young folks take their places and teach us something new to work with, to incorporate into our photography from their skill. Remember 1.1 megapixel cameras? What will be next?

The gavel has been passed to our new president, Neil Persh by immediate past-president, Bob Schwanke. Art Goldenberg, as vice-president and J. Verni, as treasurer fill out the first team. Of course the RPS could not be run without the generous services of Deborah Diaz, Ginny Santora, Jake Chapple and the host of others who concentrate on getting their jobs done with a little occasional recognition. The Focus Newsletter will be incorporated into the website, run by our travelers, Paul and Barbara Eggermann with writings by Carl and Ellen and a range of photographic offerings from our talented members.

The annual banquet was held at Pierre’s in South Brunswick where we shared delicious food and pleasant company. Karen Goldenberg was our wonderful, lovable, zany MC again. This year our judge, Tibor Vari selected Terry Geerdts’ photo “They Have Their Whole World In Their Hands” as the “Best of the Best”. We wholeheartedly agree with him.