Issue 37 (Summer/Fall 1990)

32 pages
Mailed

Cover

Two photos of paper airplane contest at Convention '90

Features

  • Recipe for the 1990 Friends Convention by Paul Krueger
  • Jean-Jerome Casalonga (The Mad Corsican) by Paul Krueger
  • Photo Gallery: Convention '90
  • Interview with Tomoko Fuse by Wendy S. Zeichner, with translation assistance from Kyoko Kondo
  • Famous Paperfolders (listing Friedrich Froebel, Harry Houdini, Leonardo da Vinci, Lewis Carroll, and Miguel de Unamuno)
  • Edgewise by Kathleen O'Regan
  • Bent Out of Shape by Joanne Ortman, reprinted from Manifold
  • Dividing Into Thirds -- Overcorrection Method by Paul V oelker (illustrated)
  • Origami and Math by John Montroll
  • Diagramming: Part VI by Robert Lang
  • Book Reviews
    • World Origami Series (4 volumes) by Tomoko Fuse, reviewed by Wendy Zeichner
    • Paper People and Other Pointers by David Petty, reviewed by Wendy Zeichner
    • Origami: I Piccoli Animali de Alfredo Giunta d'acqua, di terra, d'aria, reviewed by Mark Kennedy
    • Origami Sealife, by John Montroll and Robert Lang, reviewed by Mark Kennedy
    • Origami Zoo by Robert Lang and Stephen Weiss, reviewed by Mark Kennedy
    • More'igami by Jeff Beynon, reviewed by Mark Kennedy
    • Origami: New Ideas for Paperfolding by Gay Merrill Gross, reviewed by Jan Polish
  • Mountains and Valleys by Jean-Paul Latil
  • Group Photo: Convention '90

Departments

  • News from the Home Office
    • Notice of Board Elections; Origami by Children 1990; Publications; Alice Gray resigns from the Board; Annual Meeting; Monthly Folding Meetings; Help Wanted; committees; and other stories or announcements
  • News from Members
    • News from or about: Brad Blumenthal on transmitting diagrams by computer; Adrian Blumenfeld: Jay Ansill; World's largest paper boat; Origami in Listen, a drug-prevention magazine for teens; Christopher Pierce: origami by a prison inmate; Origami in Japan and Okinawa by Michael Wrenn; Misha Litvinov; Shawn Troy Truitt; Origami Tree for children with AIDS
  • Regional News
    • List of Regional Groups and Meetings
    • News from: Westchester Origami Workers (WOW); Connecticut; and California (San Diego and Bay Area groups)
  • News from the Supply Center

Diagrams

  • F-14 by Michael Weinstein
  • Dancer's Hat by Laura Kruskal, diagrams by Mark Kennedy
  • Practical Purse by Gay Merrill Gross, reprinted from Origami: New Ideas for Paperfolding
  • Expanding Pouch by Didier Boursin, with added variations by Mark Kennedy, Aldo Putignano and David Shall, diagrams by Mark Kennedy
  • Heart Box by Keiko Uruga
  • Heart Cube Module by Francis Ow
  • 8-Piece Garland by Francis Ow

Issue 36 (Spring 1990)

24 pages
Mailed

Cover

Photo of Mitchell and Sara Yoffe

Features

  • For the Very First Time (member responses to the "first time you folded" contest: Gay Merrill Gross, Joshua Brayman, Barbara Turner and Myrna Segal)
  • Copyright, Origami, and The Friends
  • Bent Out of Shape by Joanne Ortman, reprinted from Manifold
  • Edgewise by Kathleen O'Regan
  • When to Zen by Rhea Doucette (poem with illustration: origami from home delivery menus)

Departments

  • News from the Home Office
    • A Letter from our President by Michael Shall
    • Annual Financial Report for Period Ending 12/31/89
    • More News: Committees; Paper Magic Tree in Dallas
  • News from Members
    • News about or from: George Kirkpatrick; Sheryl Kaplan; Linda Yoffe; Debbie Snow; Megan Hicks; Tori Powell; Joel Stern; Jeff Beynon; Rhea Doucette; Melanie Lewis; Ron Arruda reporting on the death of Thelma Randlett; Milton Halpert; Barbara Van Houten; Maria-Louise Sidoroff; Don Shall; Alan Huang on "computational origami;" Cindy Davis
  • Regional News
    • Reports from: Monmouth County Mini-Convention; CHAOS; LIFE 4th Annual Fold Fest; Front Range Origami Guild (FROG), Colorado
    • Regional Groups and Meetings List
  • International News
    • Meeting Kasahara; A Modest Origami Lyricist by Toshi Aoyagi
    • Origami Dutch Style by John Montroll
    • Origami British Style by deg farrelly
    • More News from: Spain; Japan; India; France
  • Tips and Techniques
    • Self-Preservation for Origami Models by Mark Kennedy (coatings, sprays and dips)
  • News from the Supply Center

Diagrams

  • 5 Diamonds Moneyfold by Mike Thomas, diagrams by Thomas Shultz
  • Razor by Jim Troutman
  • Flapping Butterfly by Alain Georgeot, diagrams by Mark Kennedy
  • Gliding Butterfly by Didier Boursin, diagrams by Mark Kennedy

Issue 35 (Winter 1990)

24 pages
Mailed

Cover

Photo of deg farrelly's Pennsylvania "ORIGAMI" license plate

Features

  • Origami: Here, There, and Everywhere! (results of a contest to submit origami sitings)
  • Obituary: Marion Costa
  • The Year of the Apatosaurus (with list of all folders who donated models for the Holiday Tree)
  • Edgewise by Kathleen O'Regan
  • Bent Out of Shape by Joanne Ortman, reprinted from Manifold
  • Some Practical Advice for Folders by Paul H. Krueger
  • Trees by Members
  • Diagramming: Part V by Robert Lang
  • Book Reviews
    • The Gliding flight by John M. Collins, reviewed by Frank F. Fincken III
    • Origami Faces by Jean-Jerome Casalonga and Louis Mhaimeux, reviewed by Mark Kennedy
    • Origami Boxes by Tomoko Fuse, reviewed by Wendy Zeichner
    • One Dozen Folds by Nick Robinson, reviewed by Mark Kennedy
    • Animal Origami by Edwin Corrie, reviewed by Mark Kennedy
    • The Complete Origami Course, reviewed by Jan Polish
  • Mountains and Valleys by Jean-Paul Latil

Departments

  • News from the Home Office
    • A Letter from our President by Michael Shall
    • There's No Place Like the Home-Office by Brad Blumenthal
    • More News: Monthly Folding Meetings; Committees; Special Sessions; Lending Library; Origami by Children
  • News from Members
    • News from or about: Brad Blumenthal; Milton Lederman; Harry Eagle; Walter Enloe and the Thousand Crane Club; Peter Engel; Origami in Weyerhauser Today Magazine
  • Regional Groups and Meetings List
  • International News
    • Noah's Ark collage by Milada Blahova (Czechoslovakia)
    • An American in Japan by Meade Pimsler
    • More News from: International Origami Center, Japan; Elsje van der Ploeg, Holland; and Origami Munchen, Germany from Rene Lucio
  • News from the Supply Center

Diagrams

  • Sun Visor by Geoffrey Katz, diagrams by Mark Kennedy
  • Three-Headed Dragon by Milada Blahova, with Bird Base diagrams by Mark Kennedy
  • Cobra by Timothy Murphy