Midwest token kai

[seppuku]

Hi all

Does the Midwest Token Kai have a study group? I can't seem to find meeting info

thanks

[seppuku]

Or any study groups near Wisconsin

thanks again

[Rich S]

I guess you've tried contact via their website?

 

http://www.midwesttokenkai.com/

 

Rich S

[bridgeofdreams]

As near as I can determine there has not been an active, open-to-the-public, study group in the Chicago area since sometime in the 1980's. I have a copy here of "Token Study Group Notes" from 1980 that credits Ted Wysocki, who was from Milwaukee but very active in the Chicago Token Study Group as well as the JSS/US.

 

The Group was also involved with putting on a number of shows in the Chicago area over the years. The "Chicago Token Kai" show was taken over and conducted annually by Robert Coleman and others until about 5 years ago, when it was replaced by the Midwest Token Kai show organized by Marc Porpora.

 

When I first got serious about study and collecting in the mid-1990's I wrote to the "Chicago Token Kai" at a PO Box in Round Lake IL. Like countless others, I got no reply, not even a notification of the annual show! Since this time was the beginning of the first email discussion group, hosted by Bob Cole, and the first web sites, including Rich Stein's, several of us local "young upstart" collectors who were miffed at the attitude of the "non-study" group got together a few times to try to organize something. I suppose if we had had one experienced collector who was willing to be patient with out vast ignorance, we might have gotten something started. Doug Blume and Nick Kolick were at these meetings.

 

Sometime later, when I suppose I had been "checked out" and it was clear that I was serious, not criminally insane, and actually had a few good things in my collection, I was invited to an informal gathering at someone's home. This was really more of a show and tell session than a study group.

 

Those areas with active and organized study groups are fortunate, and ought to be grateful to those few committed individuals who always step up and shoulder responsibilities.

 

Craig

[Stephen]

Larry Klan

 

lives in Wisconsin

 

you can email him at

 

LKlahn@aol.com, he might get you a meet and greet.

 

If your ever driving thru Des Moines your welcome to do a drop in for a hour or so.

[seppuku]

Thanks for the replies