Greetings
Everyone,
Welcome to a new season of N4C 2022-2023. We have all been through a lot the
past few years.
If your club is like ours, it has been a struggle to keep members and very
difficult to recruit new members with all the Covid cancellations and concerns.
As we approach this new year, we are having our first convention in three years.
(Thank you Duluth CC) and we hope to bring back the spring mini-convention.
We must strive to work together as an organization to share the ideas from those
clubs that have managed to maintain a steady schedule throughout these crazy
pandemic years. What can we learn? With Zoom meetings and on-line learning
opportunities being at an all time high are there opportunities that we may be
missing. We undoubtedly will need to think out of the box going forward on how
to attract new members to our clubs and new clubs to N4C. How do we attract
younger members and get them involved so that they can continue the great N4C
legacy that has been built over the past almost 70 years. And we must stay true
to our slogan that N4C is “Where Names Become Faces and Faces Become Friends”
Greg Hoglund
N4C President 2022-2023
History
The "NORTH CENTRAL CAMERA CLUB COUNCIL” had
its inception almost simultaneously in the minds of three men Robert H.
Cochran, M.D., APSA. Omaha, E, Curtis Lugg, Sioux Falls, and Francis A.
Kingsbury, Ponca and Sioux City.
Fate decided that their paths should cross in the Spring of 1955, these three
men sat on the front porch of the Kingsbury home in Ponca Nebraska where their
vision gave birth to the North Central Council of Camera Clubs. From their idea
that evening a tentative organization, created May 30, 1955, combined members of
seven Camera Clubs located in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota. and South Dakota.
Summer, Fall, and Winter Seasons were spent in organizational creation of many
of the services still available from the "N-4-C", as the infant was nicknamed.
Meeting at the Joslyn Memorial Art Museum in Omaha, January 22, 1956, resulted
in adopting a Constitution, and in electing the temporary officers to their
permanent positions.
The First Convention, held in Sioux City, lowa, with Francis A. Kingsbury as
General Chairman gave the 123 delegates from the 20 member Clubs such excellent
programs that it is difficult to uphold tradition in the subsequent Conventions,
The now famous "N 4 C, “Where Names become Faces and Faces become Friends" was
originated during this gathering by Francis Kingsbury. The original officers
were re-elected to complete their assignment to build an active and lasting N-4
C.
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