The American Philatelist May 2018

per frame fee still applies. The show also will offer a special
award for the best two- and best three-frame exhibit and the
best two-frame and best-three frame exhibit from a first-time
exhibitor.
Knoxpex, a regional show in Tennessee, was held earlier
in March and officials reports they had a 10 percent increase
in attendance over last year and signed up 10 new members.
A video recap of the show is available on the club’s website,
knoxstamps.com/knoxpex-1.
On the Home Front
During March, we were pleased to welcome to the American
Philatelic Center two members from Canada: Gerhard
Peters and Mark Armstrong. Rick Barrett from Texas
stopped in as did John Hawkins from Georgia. Carl Klosinski
visited from Michigan and Thomas Wills from New
Jersey. We were also pleased to see regular friends from the
Wilkinsburg and Capital Cities Stamp Clubs.
Scott Tiffney, librarian for the American Philatelic Research Library,
chats with a visitor at the Bellefonte Volunteer Fair.
And we were pleased to host a number of community
events at the APC. The Centre County United Way Campaign
Celebration included a scavenger hunt using our “Alphabetilately”
exhibit and introduced roughly 200 community leaders
to the American Philatelic Research Library. We hosted and
participated in the Bellefonte Volunteer Fair; hosted a Centre
Region Down Syndrome Dance; a
Chamber of Commerce Young Professional
Networking event; the monthly
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Jerry Husak, founder of the American
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Junior Stamp Club, Mt.
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and Relay for Life
meetings; as well as a
blood drive. Such activities
provide a little extra
income and expose a lot
of people to stamp collecting.
Sad Passings
Several notable philatelists passed away in late February
and early March. Jerome D. Husak, visionary founder of the
American Topical Association, the second-largest philatelic
organization in the U.S., died on February 22 at age 86.
Jerry was a teenager in Milwaukee in 1949 when he envisioned
a society for topical collectors. He later wrote, “There
must be others like myself. Why don’t we get together and
share our information through a united body of topical
collectors?” Thus, the ATA was born. “Who knows,” Jerry
thought, “perhaps as many as 200 topical collectors might
come together.” Within five months of its founding, the ATA
had 408 members.
Jerry was ATA member No. 1 and the first recipient of the
ATA’s Distinguished Topical Philatelist award. He worked full
time for the ATA, as editor of its journal, Topical Time, until
1977, and as executive secretary until 1984. When Jerry retired
from the association’s board of directors in 2008, he was
awarded the honorary title of director emeritus. In 2012, the
ATA board designated May 25 as an “annual National Topical
Stamp Collecting Day, promoting topical stamp collecting
as a vital dimension of the future of philately and honoring
topical philately visionary and ATA founder Jerry Husak on
his birthday.”
Erivan Haub, of the legendary German Haub family of
philatelists, died March 6 at age 85. A leading collector of
Confederate States postal history and United States postmaster
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Washington civic booster made his fortune as managing
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