For the first time ever, SPAAMFAA’s Winter Convention was held away from Syracuse. The Southwest Ohio Chapter hosted the 1985 winter meeting in Cincinnati in positively spring-like 65-degree weather in mid-February. The Summer Convention/Muster returned to Syracuse. The Convention headquarters hotel was changed from the Sheraton Electronics Parkway to the Holiday Inn West, closer to the Onondaga Lake muster site.

Florida member Gary Rorabacher succeeded Frank Tremel to become the Society’s seventh President. By the mid-1980s SPAAMFAA boasted more than 2,000 members in 44 states, seven Canadian provinces and five foreign countries. Enjine!-Enjine! went to full-color covers for all four issues, instead of just for the Muster Review issue as had been the practice for several years.

Three new chapters joined our regional roster in 1965 – Mid-Michigan, East Texas and Western Pennsylvania.