{"id":7244,"date":"2016-12-31T10:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7244"},"modified":"2017-01-01T14:18:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T18:18:59","slug":"phsc-accomplishments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/phsc-accomplishments\/","title":{"rendered":"PHSC Accomplishments in Recent Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Larry Boccioletti at the PHSC fair – Park Plaza Toronto<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. As PHSC Webmaster, I intended to cover PHSC changes in 2016. On review of the year, I decided to go back a bit further.<\/p>\n

Executive
\n<\/b>We are truly blessed in the PHSC<\/a> with a variety of willing and talented volunteers. While many other societies in North American have fallen by the wayside, we have continued to function, adding new venues and publications to our organization.<\/p>\n

Our President, Clint Hryhorijiw, continues to bring fresh young people (male and female) \u00a0into our executive. These included David Bridge, Louise Freyburger, Judy Rauliuk, Ashley Cook, John Kantymir, Doug Napier, and Oscar Li, a student at U of T (Oscar returned home to Beijing late this fall). New by invitation<\/em> positions were opened on the executive board. The addition of a\u00a0\u00a0younger generation has produced a most active executive which is much envied by other photographic historical societies.<\/p>\n

I had been looking after the Membership records since the abrupt loss of our Membership Secretary Jamie Marr in February\u00a02006. At our April 2006 (and annual general) meeting, Wayne Gilbert offered to be our Membership Secretary, freeing me up to become President the following year.<\/p>\n

At our regular monthly Toronto meeting in \u00a0April 2007, I was ready to become PHSC\u00a0President, but disaster struck. The then current PHSC Treasurer, Werner Drechsel, returned to his old company to address\u00a0a merger in California and he announced his resignation from the PHSC that night, leaving some banker\u2019s boxes for whomever succeeded him.<\/p>\n

At that meeting, I spoke quietly with our 2nd VP, Clint Hryhorijiw, and we then spoke with the current President, Ed Warner. We decided I would move from 1st VP to Treasurer, a task I had handled before, and Clint would move directly from 2nd VP to President.<\/p>\n

In September 2009, Judy Rauliuk took over from me as\u00a0PHSC Treasurer. A retired CPA, she created a formal balance sheet and income statement with fair and membership earnings and costs slotted into the correct fiscal year complementing\u00a0our more casual cash flow statements.<\/p>\n

At the April 2015 general meeting our Secretary, John Morden, became our new Treasurer with long time member Bob Wilson taking over as Secretary.<\/p>\n

Scott Rickard, who had moved back here from the Yukon, and taken over Programme \u00a0from Felix Russo, resigned due to ill health leaving the position open from May of 2013 until it was ably filled by Les Jones this past fall. Les had covered both the Programme and President duties some time earlier.<\/p>\n

Auction
\n<\/b>Under the guidance of Clint, the auction was refreshed and the society took on estate auctions as well the annual PHSC auction. The auctions have contributed to overhead costs ever since.<\/p>\n

Membership<\/b>
\nWayne Gilbert has expanded the Membership Secretary function putting his own unique touch on its duties as the primary link between our members and the PHSC, especially those unable to attend the PHSC meetings or events. Wayne was actively involved in promoting and creating the 35th and 40th anniversary DVDs sent to all members. The disks include searchable files of every Photographic Canadiana, News, Newsletter, and special publications. These files were contributed for the most part by our editor, Bob Lansdale and made searchable by me (Robert Carter).<\/p>\n

Image Shows
\n<\/b>2nd VP Ashley Cook took on the challenge to hold image shows, a long desired initiative championed by PHSC founder John Linsky. Her latest show this past fall, was an event held downtown. \u00a0Although small, the show was about the right size for our group. As a start into this new field, it was cosy and active – and a resounding success!\u00a0Ashley originally experimented with a symposium at\u00a0our image shows, but that\u00a0proved to be too much and too distracting.<\/p>\n

PHSC Awards<\/b>
\nTreasurer John Morden and 2nd VP Ashley Cook have opened the PHSC Awards Program to Ryerson students with an annual thesis award. The winning thesis (edited for size) is published in an issue of Photographic Canadiana and the student has\u00a0an opportunity to present their findings at one of our monthly meetings.<\/p>\n

Photographic Canadiana
\n<\/b>Bob Lansdale introduced us to desktop publishing when he became editor. He has edited nearly twenty years of the journal –\u00a0 from the 22-4 (Jan-Feb 1997) issue to the most recent issue 42-3 (Dec 2016-Jan 017). Bob started under the auspices\u00a0of the late Ev Roseborough who as our editor introduced\u00a0a new three column layout, a PHSC logo (the wet plate man), issue indices, disciplined publication dates, and relevant articles. Over the years, you can see the improvements due to Bob\u2019s critical eye (especially in the photographs – a deeper range from really dark blacks to soft highlights with many shades of grey), the increase in Canadian articles, in-depth research, and true magazine style content. With our recent issues (from 42-2) a new format has been created using Felix Russo\u2019s graphic artist, Rita Godlevskis, in collaboration with our editor. This has included new fonts, a colour cover and a larger cover image.<\/p>\n

With issue 43-1 this coming May, 2017,\u00a0we plan to offer the journal on the newsstands as well.\u00a0\u00a0This is being done to spread the word about the PHSC to those across Canada who might not know of our existence. It will fill a niche market, hopefully attracting new members. We will\u00a0test newsstand distribution for a year – quite a daring task for our group!<\/p>\n

PHSC Press<\/b>
\nUnder the guidance of John Morden and Sonja Pushchak, the PHSC initiated a book editing and publishing function. Our first book was Secure The Shadow<\/i>, by PHSC member Robert Wilson. This illustrated paperback expands on the life of Benjamin Baltzly who once worked in Montreal for William Notman Studios.<\/p>\n

PHSC Facebook<\/b>
\nOn her own initiative Louise Freyburger opened a Facebook page for the PHSC. Leaping\u00a0\u00a0into the new future of social media has made us more relevant to the younger generation. Louise is also a columnist for the journal and the Newsletter. She has proven to be a thorough and detailed researcher.<\/p>\n

PHSC News<\/b>
\nOriginally started as the PHSC Newsletter by journal editor Bob Lansdale to announce our monthly speakers and provide a platform for articles more suited to colour photographs, the newsletter expanded to include announcing other PHSC events. I kept a list of email addresses from members and others who filled in a form at various events and our meetings. David Bridge took over duties as editor and moved the list to a mail distribution service (MailChimp) allowing us to gather distribution statistics for the first time. More recently, Sonja Pushchak revitalized the newsletter as PHSC News<\/i> featuring short punchy articles, lots of photographs and a new enticing style. David remains as editor, publishing the pdf and adding in other columns (such as the very popular column on web links by Louise Freyburger). \u00a0As webmaster, I still keep the mail list current.<\/p>\n

PHSC Website
\n<\/b>Our website brought the PHSC into the new media world ahead of other photo historical \u00a0societies and has aided in spreading the word about the PHSC while\u00a0gaining us new members and attendees at our events (before the internet,\u00a0we were a small club doing our every day tasks). I have operated the website since its inception just over twenty years ago. In August 2008, I moved the site to WordPress and a message posting philosophy in order \u00a0to simplify future transfer to another volunteer. PayPal has been added to simplify international memberships while various other items have been added to the menu bar and side bar from time to time. Much of the cost is offset by a Google sponsored ad in the right sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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