MESSAGE FROM UACC PRESIDENT MICHAEL HECHT
The UACC is planning on this August 2010 to be its "hinge" month. This is the month that the management of the UACC will try to give birth to three new issues. The first of these are the new UACC website. The second is the Neil Armstrong Signature study. The third is the Pen and Quill.
As you read this, the UACC Secretary and creator of the current UACC website, Al Wittnebert, is on his millionth phone conversion with the UACC Communication and Marketing Chief Tom Folenta. These two have given hour after hour of their time, without compensation, to create a new website for the UACC, and for everyone in the Autograph Community. It will be a vast improvement over the old one. But it takes time, lots of time. And it takes tons of content. All of us would have liked to have seen the new UACC website up and running. But we really hope, and have reason to believe, that this month, August 2010, is the month it will be launched. I have seen what Tom Folenta can do. I hope this is the month every autograph collector will be able to see what Tom and Al HAVE done to create the new and improved UACC website.
It has been years since the UACC has come out with a new signature study. It is my hope that this month, August 2010, see the publication of UACC Vice President's Anthony Pizzitola publication "Neil Armstrong the Quest for his Autograph". The primary goal of the UACC is education. The UACC hopes to take the lead in quality educational material for the collector with this publication. Anthony has had many helpers. He has many contributors to the book, so that several points of views are represented. The efforts of "Autographs" publisher Steve Cyrkin have been enlisted to see that the visual were of the highest order. Together these two have put together anew high in signature studies. I want to thank each Autograph Dealers, who has seen, first hand, how many people lose thousands of dollars on bad Armstrong signature, and stepped forward to underwrite this book with an ad. Thank you,
The Pen and Quill has been missing in action for too, long. Mark Baker has done everything asked of him. The UACC finances has permitted us to pay all our bills. But meeting the new demands of the new owners of our old printer, Dover, requires a new response. A response that has taken a lot of time and discussion. But this is the month we hope to resolve ALL of the issues involving the Pen and Quill, and get a new Pen and Quill into our memberships hands.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your patience. Results are on the way,
Happy Collecting,
Michael Hecht  UACC President