Issue 24 (December 1986)

16 pages
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Photo of Noshi, from "Origami: Rooted in Ceremony" exhibition at the AMNH

(Note: This issue is undated but was identified by postmark. Henceforth, issues are named by season/year. First Newsletter on glossy paper although 25 and 26 are non-glossy, first of four issues with added volunteer staff of Don Shall doing Macintosh page design and his wife Barbara Hofer providing editorial assistance.)

Features

  • Same Newsletter, New Look!
  • Friends to Hold Free Monthly Folding Meetings for Members
  • Origami Holiday Tree Gets a New Look With a Halo of a Thousand Stars

Departments

  • News From The Home Office
    • Photo of Lillian Oppenheimer and Verdi Adams-list item
  • More Exhibitions
    • Peace Tree at Cathedral of St. John The Devine
    • Exhibition in the Window at Japan Airlines
    • Origami by Children
    • Origami Holiday Tree at American Museum of Natural History
    • Meridian House International Christmas Tree
    • Davis, CA Public Library
    • Detroit Institute of Art
  • News From Members
    • Japanese Folders Visit New York
    • Paper Pandas and Jumping Frogs
    • A Bridal Gift
    • A Sketch of Rona Gurkewitz
    • An Origami-related Puzzle Contest Entry by Robyn Holman
    • Joan Schneider in Florida
    • Festival of the Arts: '86 Bergen County, NJ
    • More News From Members: Milton Halpert; Tom Vinik; Vicky Mihara; Kathy Weller in Japan; Clair Chamberlain in Australia
  • News From Local & Regional Folding Societies
    • Paper Shapers of Northern New Jersey
    • Monmouth County (Southern NJ) Origami Society
    • Ann Arbor Society 4 Origami
    • Friends of Origami in New England

Diagrams

  • Rose - Paper Napkin Fold, collected by Stephen Weiss (creator unknown), diagrammer unidentified, but appears to be the style of Carol Ann Wilk.
  • Canadian Beaver by Paul Rohrlich
  • Elizabeth's Heart by Elizabeth Reeds, age 5 1/2, diagrams by Steve Vinik
  • Baby Bird by Robin Moesley

Issue 23 (August 1986)

12 pages
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Photo of Bobby and Pamela Hay, "juvenile instructors" for Kid's Session

Features

  • Very Special Sessions Set For Fall
  • Milton Lederman Honored
  • Florence Temko's New Book, Etc.
  • An Origami Tree At Washington, D.C.'s Meridian House International
  • Four New Honorary Members Elected (Alice Gray, Peter Miller, Fred Rohm and Gwen Williams)
  • Origami Summer Special Held At Bergen County Wildlife Center
  • It's VCR Time: The Statue of Liberty, A Video Diagram by David Shall, produced by deg farrelly
  • Momotani Family Origami--An International Exhibition
  • Fred Rohm Donates His Collection To The Friends
  • Origami Goes High Tech (Friends obtain first computer, an AT&T PC 6300)
  • Library Collection Questionnaire
  • Convention '86 Photo Gallery
  • Kathy Weller Sends Greetings From Tokyo
  • Marc Overmars Visits From Holland
  • Folded Elegance (Trish Troy Truitt displays chiyogami cards at Convention)
  • (additional brief stories and letters from members)

Departments

  • Edgewise by Kathleen O'Regan (first appearance of Kathleen's cartoon series

Diagrams

  • Music Note by Paul Fecskovics, diagrams by Steve Vinik
  • Fanny's Bag, submitted by Ruth R. Davis, diagrams by Steve Vinik

Issue 22 (May 1986)

12 pages
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Photos From Convention '86: George Jarschauer and Andrew Zwick

Features

  • Convention Fever
  • Folding Big: The Statue of Liberty Project and Other Large Scale Folds by David Shall
  • Germany, France and Englan - Origami by Lore Schirokauer
  • Filming The Folding Money by Steve Vinik
  • Past Years' Convention Programs and T-shirts For Sale
  • Origami, L.D. and Me by Elaine Martin (An appreciation of Gloria Farison)
  • Convention '86 Photo Gallery
  • Martha Landy Recognized by Board of Directors Upon Leaving Associate Director Post
  • Meet George Mumford, A First-Rate Arkansas Folder
  • Great Paper Airplane Fly-Off in Brooklyn
  • Origami As Educational Therapy by Catherine Murnane, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1985 Origami By Children Exhibition by Liz Schneider (Participants names, ages and models folded)
  • Origami Brochure Published, design by Katie Kehrig

Diagrams

  • Cash Flow by Steve Vinik
  • Swan Moneyfold by Arnold Tubis, diagrams by Louise Cooper

Issue 21 (February 1986)

12 pages
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Photo of David Shall's Statue of Liberty model on the 1985 Japan Air Lines tree

Features

  • What's Up MAC? (A James Sakoda update on using a Macintosh and MacDraw for diagramming, with photo)
  • Origami, The International Language by Sam Batt (teaching origami in Israel)
  • The Museum's 1985 Holiday Tree (with photo)
  • Convention '86 Announcements and Registration Form
  • Robert Lang Exhibit, And The West Coast Origami Guild
  • A Friend In Deed(s): Kyoko Kondo
  • Letter From Akira Yoshizawa
  • In New England, It's "Pay-pa:" Acivities of Friends Of Origami In New England
  • Time For 1,000 Cranes (Member Tina Koyama folds 1,000 cranes using Time Magazine covers)
  • Mingei Museum Paper Exhibit To Tour
  • Innocent By Association (Florida State Senator Kirkpatrick folds paper while campaigning)

Diagrams

  • Adolfo's Inside-Out Flower by Adolfo Cerceda, diagrams by Liz Schneider (first appearance of a complete model diagram in the Newsletter)