The Theo Van Dam Military Postal History Society Grand Award
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Introduction
This award is presented, since 1992, to the best military exhibit entered in the show, by a member of the society, during the MPHS Annual Meeting.
Per an article in the Bulletin:
Joe Taylor was the first MPHS member to receive the new award, a carved wooden eagle. The new trophy was introduced at this year’s convention by Awards Chairman Bob Lana.
Past Winners
| Year | Event | Awardee | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | BALPEX | Steven Berlin | Mail Robbery in Military Conflicts 1745-1945 |
| 2018 | INDYPEX | Jerry Miller | Watch on the Rhine: Allied Occupation of the Rhineland 1918-1930 |
| 2017 | INDYPEX | Tony Brooks | Postal History of Berlin 1945-1952 |
| 2011 | CHICAGOPEX | Janet Klug | The Australian Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952 |
| 2010 | St. Louis Stamp Expo | Harold E. Peter | Fieldpost Schleswig-Holstein/Denmark Wars 1848-51 & 1852 Occupation; 1864 War and 1865-66 Occupation |
| 2009 | NOJEX | Janet Klug | Terror in the Jungle: Counter-Insurgency during the Malaya Emergency |
| 2008 | ROMPEX | Thomas W. Broadhead | Balloon Post Cards of the Franco-German War 1870-1871 |
| 2007 | INDYPEX | Jonathan Becker | The Conquest and British Military Administration of Palestine and (Greater) Syria 1914-1920 |
| 2006 | |||
| 2005 | BOXBOROUGH | Al Kugel | British Empire Intervention in Central Powers: WW I and its Aftermath |
| 2004 | CHICAGOPEX | Mark Banchik | United States Iintervention in Mexico 1846-1848 |
| 2003 | WESTPEX | Al Kugel | Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I |
| 2002 | TEXPEX | Al Kugel | American Intervention in the Caribbean 1906-1934 |
| 2001 | NAPEX | Al Kugel | Postal History of the American Forces in China 1900-1941 |
| 2000 | SANDICAL | George Cosentini | V-Mail |
| 1999 | VAPEX | Galen Harrison | Prisoners Mail from the American Civil War (also show grand) |
| 1998 | ROMPEX | Stan Luft | France Military Campaigns 1823-1897 |
| 1997 | CHICAGOPEX | Stan Jersey | New Hebrides Islands, WW II |
| 1996 | COLOPEX | Stan Jersey | British Solomon Islands: The War Years 1942-1945 (also show reserve grand) |
| 1995 | VAPEX | Jesse Boehret | German POW Mail, Camps in Japan 1914-20 (also show reserve grand) |
| 1994 | WESTPEX | Al Kugel | The American Intervention in Russia (also show grand) |
| 1993 | NOJEX | Diane Boehret | German Military Mission in Turkey WWI (also show reserve grand) |
| 1992 | BALPEX | Joe Taylor | Allied Intervention in Russia |
Dated january 2019, assume 2018 Indypex Jerry Miller won a large gold, the MPHS award, the Indiana Stamp Club 20th century award, a Germany Philatelic Society silver, and the APS 19001940 medal of excellence at Indypex in Noblesvi lle, IN in October with his
Spring 2018 bulletin: Anthony Brooks won a large gold, the MPHS award, a Germany Philatelic Society silver, and the APS 19401980 medal of excellence at Indypex in Indianapolis in October with his
ALSO spring 2018 bulletin, so how many 'MPHS awards' were given out per year?? At the Plymouth Show in Michigan in April, James E. Smith won a large silver, the MPHS award, and the Women Exhibitors Sterling Achievement award for “Surrender in Tokyo Bay.
ALSO spring 2018 bulletin, so how many 'MPHS awards' were given out per year?? David McNamee won a large gold, the show chairman’s award, and the MPHS award at Westpex in San Francisco in April with his “The Natal Rebellion of 1906.
Spring 2003 bulletin has: Kugel Takes MPHS Grand ar WESTPEX Al Kugel received a gold and the MPHS Grand Award at our convention in San Francisco with his “Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I.” (got it), NOW what is a MPHS Reserve Grand? Charles LaBlonde received a gold, the MPHS Reserve Grand, and the APS 1940-1980 medal of excellence for his “Swiss WW II Mail to Great Britain, Canada and the USA.” Vermeil awards went to Robert F. Koschalk for “German Occupation of Czechoslovakia,” Robert Kinsley for “‘Switzer- land and the Two World Wars,” Eric Knapp for “‘The Postal History of “The Thousand Mile War,’” and to Louis Fiset for “U.S. Internment Camp Mail in World War II.” Steve Henderson wona silver for “U.S. Navy Censors Handstamp Markings of World War Il in the Pacific” along with the APS research medal. Inthe single frame category, Robert Rawlins wona gold, the USCS best one frame exhibit, and the International Philippines Philatelic Society Eugene A. Garrett award for Best Philippines exhibit with his “Mail from Manila Bay, 10 December 1941 to 3 May 1942.” Louis Fiset also took a gold for “Civilian Mail Linked to the Two U.S.-Japan Diplomatic Exchanges during World War Il.” Roy Teixeira received a vermeil for “Internees in the Azores during the Great War 1916-1918.
ALSO spring 2018 bulletin, so how many 'MPHS awards' were given out per year?? Myron Paleywon a large vermeil and the MPHS award at Aripex in Mesa, Ariz., in February with his “Japan’s War Years 18941911.
ALSO spring 2018 bulletin, so how many 'MPHS awards' were given out per year?? The MPHS award, the Auxiliary Markings Club award and a gold went to Michael Dixon at the GarfieldPerry show in Cleveland in March for his “Boer POW Camps in Ceylon 19001902.
COMMENT: I am beginning to wonder whether the 'MPHS awards' are NOT the Theo Van Dam Grand award. Perhaps all these belong in the 'Exhibit Award' instead .
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