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 PISG Officers Past and Present at StampShow 2007 in Portland, Oregon. |
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President: 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. He has also contributed a number of articles to the Pitcairn Log and was the main organizer of the group's activities at the Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition. Mark lives with his wife and son in Massachusetts. Vice 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. Recently he has enjoyed helping to man the PISG joint society table at the Washington 2006 World Philatelic Exhibition and at the APS StampShow 2007 in Portland, Oregon. An expatriate for over 27 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. Secretary: Barbara Kuchau - PISGsecretary(at)yahoo.com Barbara collects everything Pitcairn related. 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: Jim Bailey - jfbailey(at)web-access.net A stamp and philatelic collector for 57 years Jim's varied collecting interests are stamps, covers and postal history of Pitcairn, US used stamps, used GB-Victorian and Edward VII stamp issues, stamps of Benin and Dahomey, mourning covers of US and GB, US Civil War event covers, auxiliary markings on covers, life of Christ on stamps, Norman Rockwell on stamps, roses on stamps and Christmas stamps. Jim is a partner in a local CPA firm and he and his wife, Sonya, enjoy traveling and their three children, nine grandchildren and one great grandson. They live in the country, have horses, cattle and llamas and Jim enjoys gardening and watching various sports, especially the Dallas Cowboys. Director: Prof. Mitchell Bunkin - bhive(at)ptd.net Mitch has been interested in learning about isolated communities for most of his life. He has been in touch with Pitcairn Island off and on since 1955. Mitch and his wife Sue personally know many of those presently living on Pitcairn, as well as Pitcairners living in Australia, New Zealand and Norfolk Island. They spent almost a month on Pitcairn in 1993 which only served to strengthen the affection they have for the islanders. Mitch has some photos of Pitcairn today, as well as 50 years ago posted in the TRAVEL section of his website, www.bucks.edu/~bunkinm. He also collects rare books and relics relating to Pitcairn and its inhabitants. While Mitch is not a stamp collector, he is somewhat knowledgeable about philatelic issues. Mitch Bunkin lives in a semi-rural area known as Bucks County, midway between Philadelphia and Allentown. He has been on the Social Sciences faculty of Bucks County Community College since 1968. He collects paintings by Pennsylvania Impressionist artists and helped research a book on the subject. Mitch served for 10 years as President of his township's land conservancy and presently 1/3 of his township's land has been saved as open space. Mitch also actively participates in the local Model "A" Ford club happily tooling around in his 1930 "Town Sedan." A fascination with early American architecture led to the purchase of their 200 year old home which they have tried to keep in close to original condition. Mitch and Sue have two sons and three grandchildren. 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. This background has prepared him (a little) for the job of Managing Editor of the Pitcairn Log, a task he takes most seriously. 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): Everett Parker - eparker(at)hughes.net
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