MILITARY POSTAL HISTORY SOCIETY Officers From January 1, 2008

Alfred F. Kugel,
502 N York Rd.
Hinsdale, IL 60521-3587

Tony Brooks
5452 N. Pennsylvania S
Indianapolis, IN 46220-3022

Ed Dubin
P.O Box 586
Belleville, MI 48112

Norman Gruenzner
P.O. Box 32
Cypress, TX 77410-0032

Eliot A. Landau
515 Ogden Ave, Suite 101
Downers Grove, IL 60515-3081
 

Chuck J. LaBlonde
APS Representative, Literature Award Rep.
15091 Ridgefield Lane
Colorado Springs, CO 80921

David A. Kent
MPHS Editor
P. O. Box 127
New Britain, CT 06050
Phone/FAX 860-667-1400.

Harvey Tilles
Awards Coordinator
P.O. Box 5466,
High Point, NC 27262-5466

Myron Fox
Immediate Past President, Auction Manager
4 Arbor Circle
Natick, MA 01760-2953

James N. Boyden
World War I Study Group 
8194 Kaster Drive NE
Bremerton, WA 98311-4137

 

Al Kugel:

Al is an investment counselor based in Chicago. He has been involved in philately since childhood and holds memberships in the Collectors Clubs of Chicago and New York, the Royal Philatelic Society London and a wide variety of specialty organizations. Al has exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, and has written many articles for philatelic journals, mostly related to 20th Century military mail. He currently serves as a national-level philatelic judge, director of the Chicago Philatelic Society, Council Member of the American Philatelic Congress and General Chairman of the CHICAGOPEX show. He received the Luff Award for distinguished philatelic research from the APS in 2005.

Charles J. LaBlonde:

Chuck is a retired Air Force officer. He is an APS judge and jury chairman emeritus. His philatelic interest is postal history with special emphasis on World War II mail to and from Switzerland. He exhibits in this area and has published two sellout books on Swiss WW II postal history. Chuck is a founder and past president of the American Helvetia Philatelic Society. His philatelic memberships span the globe and include the prestigious Swiss Consilium Philateliae Helveticae of which he was the first American member. He is currently Americas Secretary and Treasurer of the Civil Censorship Study Group. Chuck was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London.

Ed Dubin:

Ed is a retired engineer from Ford Motor Company. He is a long time collector, a member of the American Philatelic society for over thirty years and a number of specialty societies. His military postal history collecting interests focus on the 20th century period and especially the WWI era. Ed was the local committee chairman when the APS held its Stampshow in Detroit in 1988. He is active in several local clubs and is a past president of the West Suburban Stamp Club in Plymouth, Michigan. Ed is also a past chairman of the Plymouth Show, an APS World Series of Philately annual event.