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USSS 2003 Annual Meeting
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Our 2003 Annual Meeting was held on November 21st through 23rd at
CHICAGOPEX in Arlington Heights,
Illinois. Also holding annual meetings
at CHICAGOPEX were the British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group and the
United Postal Stationery Society.
On Friday evening about 40 USSS members and guests gathered at a nearby Chinese restaurant for a Dutch treat dinner and stamp fellowship. The next day after lunch, our annual USSS Membership Meeting was held. This was followed by meetings of the Prexie Committee and the Washington-Franklin Committee. On the exhibit floor our members did very well. Although a Barbados exhibit won the Grand Award, member Peter G. DuPuy won the Reserve Grand Award for United States with his exhibit "30¢ and 90¢ Denominations of the U.S. 1861 Issue" and member Ross A. Towle won the Reserve Grand Award for Foreign with his exhibit "Chile Postal Cards and Envelopes 1872-1929." In addition to these awards, The United States Stamp Society's Southgate Award for best U.S. 19th Century exhibit by a USSS member went to Robert D. Hohertz for his exhibit "Revenue Stamped Paper of the Spanish American War Tax Era." The Hopkinson Award for best U.S. 20th Century exhibit by a USSS member went to Robert A. Schlesinger for his exhibit "The 1938 Presidential Issue - A Rate Study." The Statue of Freedom Medal for best exhibit of U.S. material went to Peter G. DuPuy for his exhibit "30¢ and 90¢ Denominations of the U.S. 1861 Issue." Overall, USSS members won a total of five Golds, six Vermeils and three Silvers in the multi-frame exhibit competition and one Gold and two Vermeils in the single frame competition. In the literature competition, our monthly journal, The United States Specialist, won a Vermeil, while our latest publication, A Glossary of Terms for the Collector of United States Stamps, won a Silver medal. Some of the members who stopped by our table to assist in recruiting new members and selling USSS publications, or just stopped by to socialize and show off their latest purchases, included:
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