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 PISG Officers Past and Present at StampShow 2007 in Portland, Oregon. |
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President: Ted Cookson - tedcookson(at)gmail.com A PISG member since 1980, Ted has been fascinated by Pitcairn Island and the Bounty saga since the early 1960s when, as a young teenager growing up in Coos Bay, Oregon, he read the Bounty Trilogy and began collecting Pitcairn Islands stamps. He feels lucky to have been able to visit Pitcairn in 2000, 2002 and 2003. Ted has written various articles for the Pitcairn Log and is currently compiling a monograph entitled Pitcairn Island and the Bounty Saga - Institutions and Monuments: A Worldwide List of Related Museums, Libraries, Archives, Churches and Monuments. He has enjoyed helping to man the PISG society table at the Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition and every annual APS StampShow since 2007. An expatriate for over 30 years, Ted has managed a travel agency in Cairo, Egypt since 1988. Prior to his travel career he worked as a commercial banker in New York City and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Vice President: Vernon N. Kisling, Jr. - vkisling(at)uflib.ufl.edu Dr. Vernon Kisling is the Current Chair of the Marston Science Library at the University of Florida (and University Librarian for environmental sciences and history of science). Previously a Curator at the Atlanta and Miami zoos and President/Owner of Wildlife Publications, Inc., Vernon has done wildlife ecology research in Papua New Guinea and Chile. Editor (and author of two chapters) of Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections to Zoological Gardens, as well as numerous professional and philatelic journal articles, he has an MS in wildlife biology, MLS in library studies, and DPA in public administration. In addition to Pitcairn Islands (began corresponding to Roy Clark in the 1960s), Vernon collects first and earliest wildlife issues (worldwide 1840-1969), as well as zoo and aquarium issues. Secretary: Ed Morgan - eanddfof(at)gmail.com Ed is a world wide collector. His special interests are Pitcairn, Australia, and New Zealand. Besides his membership in PISG, he is also a member of the APS, The Collectors Club (New York), and the Myrtle Beach Stamp Club. He lives in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Treasurer: Brad Brunsell After 35 years of service to the Boston Public Schools, Treasurer Brad Brunsell retired from teaching in 2001. Brad specializes in stamps (up to 1966) and covers/postal history of the British Commonwealth, with an emphasis on Pitcairn material. A born collector, he is also interested in postcards, coins, and vintage baseball cards from the early 50's. Since retiring, he has traveled to Florida, Texas, England, Italy, Alaska, and Greece with Sara, his companion of many years. Brad graduated from Boston Latin School, the oldest (1635) public school in the U.S, received his bachelor's degree from Eastern Nazarene College, and his M. Ed. from Boston State College/University of Massachusetts. Aside from collecting, he enjoys watching the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots, playing competitive Bridge, and photography. Director: Jerry Jensen - jerry(at)gps.nu A philatelic collector and student for 60 years, Jerry's varied collecting interests are stamps, covers and postal history of Pitcairn, Germany, Norway and US Christmas seals. He had the honor, in 2000, of creating the first "National Gold" winning exhibit of the Pitcairn Islands shown here in the United States. Jerry retired in 1990 at the age of 55 when he sold the integrated circuits manufacturing company that he founded. Since then, he has been active as an officer in national philatelic organizations, enjoyed traveling, writing and editing philatelic publications. His latest efforts have produced CDROMS covering past monthly journals of another philatelic organization. Director: Ron Edwards - edwards2(at)hotkey.net.au Ron previously served as a PISG Director from 1987 to 2007 and lives in Australia. Director: Steve Pendleton - SPENDL(at)peoplepc.com Steve has been a member of PISG for about 15 years. He is also a member of the APS as well as a number of other groups, mainly Polar and Pacific. As a retired (semi) teacher he now has some time to devote to my favorite island-Pitcairn. While teaching Steve found that he needed a creative outlet and so began writing for the general philatelic press. Luckily, the editors (and some collectors) seemed to like what he wrote, so he continued. Right now Steve lives with his long-suffering wife of 30-odd years, two dogs and either two or three cats depending on who's dropping in in the smog-choking, tule fog infested, heat cauldron of the Central Valley of California. Immediate Past President (ex-officio): Mark A. Butterline - mbutterli(at)comcast.net Mark's main interests in Pitcairn are philatelic (Pitcairn postal history since 1940) and historical. His exhibit entitled Pitcairn Islands First Definitive Series Postal History won a gold medal at AmeriStamp 2006 in Toronto.
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