The American Philatelist April 2020

latelists of America president Kathryn J. Johnson. More information
on these philatelic leaders is available from the
Southeastern Stamp Expo website at http://www.sefsc.org/
women-in-philately.html
Charles J. O’Brien, III, won the Southeastern Stamp
Expo multi frame grand award for his exhibit, Frank Lloyd
Wright First Days & Usage of the Two Cent Definitive Issue.
The David L. Hill multi frame reserve grand went to James
R. Taylor for St. Pierre & Miquelon: Colonial Series through
First Pictorial. Louis Fiset took home the Athens Philatelic
Society Memorial single frame grand award for his Political
Prisoners’ Mail from the 1848 Paris June Days Uprising.
Congratulations also to Harvey S. Teal who received the
Southeastern Federation Rowland Hill award for service to
the hobby in the Southeastern States. A retired educator,
school administrator, and former supervisor of instructional
technology for the South Carolina Department of Education,
Teal is an expert on South Carolina philately and author
of South Carolina Postal History and Illustrated Catalog
of Postmarks and South Carolina Post Offices and Postmasters,
1860–1865.
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The Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition, held February
7–9, hosted the American Air Mail Society, the China
Stamp Society, the Society for Czechoslovak Philately and a
regional meeting of Polonus, the Polish Philatelic Society. In
addition, the Florida Postal History Society, the US Possessions
Society, and the Cuban Philatelic Society of America
held meetings.
Congratulations to Jon Krupnick, whose Pan American
Clippers Conquer the Pacific August 1933 to December 31,
1941, exhibit received the multi frame grand award.
The multi frame reserve grand went to Mark Schwartz
for The New York Postmaster Provisional. Bob Hisey won the
Single Frame Grand for Access Routes for Africa-US Airmail
to the U.S.,WWII.
Sarasota also has a literature competition for articles.
Charles DiComo took home the literature grand for “New
Plate Flaw Discovery: ‘Dash & Ink Trail’ on 3¢ 1851 Stamp”
which was published in the Chronicle of U.S. Classic Postal
Issues. The literature reserve grand went to Robert G. Rose
for “Bristol Packet’s ‘NEW YORK’ Handstamp: Was it Applied
in London or New York?” published in The London
Philatelist.
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The following weekend, ARIPEX was held in Mesa, Arizona.
ARIPEX celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth
of Beethoven with a sub-theme “Love is Eternal” for the Val-
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