Park Cities Stamps - Texas Philatelic Association

editor’s notes
Stotts wins APS post; NAPEX silver for Philatelist
By Douglas Moss
Congratulations to Denise Stotts on her election as a director-at-large of the American
Philatelic Society (APS), our nation’s largest stamp collectors’ organization.
Denise’s official duties will begin August 11 at the APS Stampshow in Portland, Oregon.
It is nice to have a voice from Texas in Bellfonte. To see what kind of job Denise can do, plan
on attending the Greater Houston Stamp Show in September, more details about which
appear on page 26. The event is staged by the Houston Philatelic Society and she is the
show chairperson.
On June 2, 2007, The Texas Philatelist received a silver medal in the literature class for
periodicals at the National Philatelic Exhibitions (NAPEX) of Washington D.C. The six issues of
2006 were entered in the competition, so the judges saw the big changes that were made
as the Philatelist matured from a copy machine publication to a full-color, offset-printed one.
The scoring was only few points away from a vermeil medal; further improvements were
deemed necessary in the publicizing member services, serving the target
audience and providing more articles with original research. As to the
latter, apparently the judges weren’t aware that our state has the Texas
Postal History Society Journal, a separate publication, so they were looking
for more “postal history” type articles in the Philatelist.
A big thank you goes out to everyone who contributed articles to
the journal in 2006. We are always in need of them, particularly for the
rest of this year. Make a commitment and sit down today and write one.
Share your philatelic knowledge in your “award” winning journal! Who knows, maybe your
article can help the journal win a vermeil or gold the next time it is entered into a national
competition!
Finally, the TPA/OPS Spring Auction was quite successful, so another will be held in the
fall. If you didn’t participate the first time around, this is your chance to rectify the situation.
Lots are being accepted now and the rules remain pretty much the same, especially the great
part about no commission for buyer or seller!
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