Honorary Life Membership Awarded

The board of directors of the Haiti Philatelic Society voted unanimously June 1^st to bestow the Society’s Honorary Life Membership to Carroll L. Lloyd.  

According to the board, this honor is reserved for individuals of the highest caliber who have provided outstanding service and contributions to the Society and the philately of Haiti.  Since joining the Haiti Philatelic Society in 1975, Mr. Lloyd has contributed numerous articles to the Society’s quarterly journal, Haiti Philately. He also has been an active officer in a variety of positions, including the presidency (2001-2004).  Peter C. Jeannopoulos, current president, noted that Mr. Lloyd has acted as a mentor to many, and has been generous sharing his knowledge and expertise. 

Mr. Lloyd served as an APS National Level Judge for 28 years, on the APS Expert Committee for 25 years, and Chairman of APS Ethics Committee for 9 years.  Also, he served as President of Baltimore Philatelic Society (1961-1962) and as Bourse Chairman for the SIPEX International Stamp Exhibition in 1966. 

Numerous portions of the Lloyd collection have received the high awards at the national and international levels.   He exhibited 8 different multi-frame exhibits of Haiti all of which received National level Gold Awards. Two won Grand Awards at National level exhibitions.

His Liberty Head Issue exhibit competed in the Champion of Champions competition in 1979 and later received an International Large Gold Award.  A single frame exhibit, “Postal Rates of the Haitian Tariff of 1919,” won a single frame Gold, as well as a Grand Award at NAPEX ’07.  His “Formula Cards & Postal Stationery of Haiti: 1881-1935” exhibit won the Marcus White Award.  

Mr. Lloyd’s first American Philatelic Congress book article in 1985, "Haiti: The Liberty Heads - Plate Reconstruction of the 2 Centime Re-engraved Stamp of 1886," won the Jere Hess Barr Award.  His second, in 1993, "The Formula Cards of Haiti," was awarded the Erani Drossos Award.

Honorary Life Membership Awarded

In recognition of his longstanding service to the Haiti Philatelic Society and to the study of the philately of Haiti, on the 1st of June 2007, the Society awarded F. Burton Sellers its first Honorary Life Membership.  This award is designed specifically to recognize those who have made "outstanding service and contribution to the H.P.S. and the philately of Haiti".   Mr. Sellers joined the Society in 1975 and proved to be a mainstay and principal contributor to the Society's quarterly journal with numerous articles across the years.  During the same period, he was an active officer in the Society, serving in a variety of positions including the presidency.

As a philatelist, Mr. Sellers assembled a magnificent collection of Haiti, which was widely recognized at  national and international levels with the highest awards.  Through the years, he has been a close friend, colleague, and mentor to many, always generous in sharing his knowledge and expertise.

Honorary Members of the Society receive Life Membership in the H.P.S., a congratulatory letter, and a framed certificate.

Award presented by the Haiti Philatelic Society at the Washington 2006 International Philatelic Exhibition

A crystal carafe, four glasses and tray especially engraved by Keith Stupel of New York was donated as a special prize by the Haiti Philatelic Society to Washington 2006, the international philatelic exhibition held May 27th -June 3rd in Washington D. C., USA

Stupel is perhaps best known for his engraving on the American Philatelic Society’s “Champion of Champion” silver bowl that he presented to the organization in 1998.  Disks below the trophy bear the names of past award winners. 

The Haiti Philatelic Society was organized in May 1975, and their membership includes collectors residing in 18 different countries around the world. Officers and members felt it appropriate to celebrate their recent 30^th anniversary with this donation to Washington 2006, and encouraged other philatelic organizations to make similar gifts.

A member of the Society, who prefers to remain anonymous, offered to pay the cost of the Stupel creation and wanted to make this award as a remembrance of a good friend, Haiti collector and member of the Society that has long passed away. 

Thus, the award was offered in memory of Mr. Clifford Shafer, Haiti Philatelic Society member #77.  Mr. Shafer joined the HPS in February 1979, at which time he described his occupation as “retailer”.  He owned a novelty store in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.  He was noted as having one of the best known collections of early pre-philatelic postal history/town markings of Saint Domingue.  Although he collected all of Haiti, his main collection focused on stampless covers from 1760 to 1814.  His collection was sold by the international auction house of Robson Lowe years ago. 

The Judges at Washington 2006 awarded the HPS award to Dr. Irvin Heimburger for his exhibit “The US Pictorial Issue of 1869”.