Centennial Art Contest Winner!
The Omaha Philatelic Society is proud to announce that Joyella Brick is the winner of the Society’s Centennial Art Contest for her artwork titled “Swartz Printing Stamp”! Joyella’s wonderful design shown below celebrates our stamp collecting club’s heritage and our 100th Anniversary.
Joyella’s design features the former Swartz & McKelvie Printing Company building where in the winter and early spring of 1926 a group of stamp collectors met informally to talk about stamps and exhibit their collections to each other. It was here that the group formed the Omaha Philatelic Society on April 23, 1926. The building still stands and is shown on our About Us page.
Joyella’s artwork will be used as a cachet on philatelic covers commemorating the Centennial of the Omaha Philatelic Society.
Joyella currently is studying Graphic Design at Northwestern College in Orange City Iowa. She said;
“From a very young age, I knew I loved making art. The pen, paint, and crayon doodles on my bedroom walls can attest to this. I started taking art classes in elementary school and honed in on my skills in high school. I hope to continue making art and someday get a job as a concept artist or illustrator for an animation company.”
Congratulations, Joyella, and thank you for being a part of our Centennial celebration!
Philatelists Alexander Haimann and David Beech visit the OPS during American Philatelic Society 50-State Challenge
The Omaha Philatelic Society had the pleasure of hosting guest speakers Alexander Haimann and David Beech at our August 8th meeting! Alex is the American Philatelic Society’s 2025 Kehr Award winner “for enduring contributions that help guarantee the future of the hobby.” In 2012 David Beech was awarded Britain’s Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to philately.
Read about their Omaha visit here.
Our Mission
The objective of the Omaha Philatelic Society is the advancement of philatelic interest and knowledge among the membership and its community, the formation of philatelic friendships, mutual benefit through the exchange of philatelic material, and the promotion of our collecting hobby.
Meetings
The club meets on the second and fourth Friday of each month. Meetings start at 7:30 PM. Doors open at 7:00. The only exceptions to our meeting dates are perhaps in April, depending on whether one of the meetings falls on Good Friday, in November, when the second meeting may be moved to the third Friday, and in December, when there is no fourth-Friday meeting.
Our current membership is 60 members strong. Each of our meetings is typically attended by about 20 to 35 members.
The second Friday of each month is a short business meeting followed by a presentation related to philately given by a member or guest speaker. If no presentation is scheduled, the club will usually hold a member bourse, where members are encouraged to bring stamps, covers, or any other philatelic item from their collection for selling, trading, or for show-and-tell.
The fourth-Friday meetings include a brief discussion on current club affairs followed by an exchange (auction) of philatelic items submitted by our members.
Guests are always welcome to attend our club meetings. However, membership is required to participate in our auctions or borrow books from our library.
Meeting Location
Pacific Hills Lutheran Church
90th and Pacific Streets (SW corner)
Omaha, NE 68124
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