Greetings
Everyone,
As we embark on
another N4C season I can’t help but look back on the last couple of strenuous
years. The cancellation of the 2020 N4C Convention in Sioux City, the Spring
Mini Convention, two years in a row, and now the postponement of the 2021
convention in Duluth. Video conferencing our board meetings and postponing our
print competitions were some of the other challenges we had to face. All were
tough but necessary decisions and whatever the challenges were, I’m proud of the
way everyone stepped up to confront them so we could still continue on as best
we could.
I’m an
optimist, however, and I see light at the end of the tunnel. With the convention
being postponed and not cancelled we can now look forward to the N4C Duluth
convention in 2022. Our print competitions are back and with the current rule
changes I look for it to be even bigger and better. Also, plans are still
underway for the Spring Mini Convention in Indianola, Iowa so stay tuned for
more information as that develops.
All in all, I
believe the tide is turning and things are looking up for N4C. Yes, we will
always be faced with challenges and issues but I believe the future looks bright
and I look forward to serving as your 2021/2022 President.
Doug Conrad
2021-2022 N4C President

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.