Welcome to the SAM 27 Home Page on the World-Wide Web

The Society of Antique Modeler's Northern California Chapter 27

last updated: August 23, 1997!

Dedicated to Old-Timer Modeling in all its forms: Free-Flight, R/C, Rubber, Power and Indoor flying with members from all over Northern California--and indeed, the world through our monthly newsletter: The Antique Flyer, ably edited by Wes Funk, SAM 27 has members of all ages and a very active Junior OT (Old Timer) program made possible my member Rocco Ferrario, an eighth-grade Science teacher and avid modeler who uses modeling to teach and motivate his Middle-School students. Many of SAM 27's members were active modelers in their youth which spanned the 30's and 40's and encompassed the "Golden Age" of modeling activity in the United States. They have stories and memories of the famous and near-famous from that era and are a unique resource for the club.

(This site will feature current on-line versions of our monthly newsletter The Antique Flyer in the future as well as special features about Old-Timer modeling as we get them converted to HTML--So keep watching us from time-to-time as we build this site. Please contact the webmaster via nedn@napanet.net with suggestions, ideas or problems with this site or Click Here if your browser supports direct E-Mail)

Click Here to See Scenes from Sam 27's Most Recent Meeting

Click Here to See Scenes from SAM 27's Recent New Zealand Postal 1/2-A Texaco R/C Postal Challenge Warning! Heavy Graphics involved.

Click here to see scenes from Crash & Bash 1996

Visit Our Page of Links to other Modeling Web Sites

Click here to Printout an application to join AMA

Officers and Gentlemen

SAM 27 member Don Bekins is the Immediate Past-President of the national SAM organization and Ed Hamler, another SAM 27 member serves as Western States Vice-President for SAM.

SAM 27 Chapter Officers

NEW FOR 1997!

President: John Hlebcar (707) 252-8482

Vice-President: Pete Samuelson (707) 224-1023 (Re-Elected for '97!)

Treasurer: John Carlson (707) 996-8820 (Re-Elected for '97!)

Contest Director: Ed Hamler (707) 255-3547

Official Photographer: John Hlebcar (707) 252-8482

Newsletter Editor: Wes Funk (916) 587-2785

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