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2024 CWPS Annual Meeting Awards

Published on March 25, 2024

The CWPS Annual Meeting in St. Louis resulted in a number of awards being presented to our members.  These Society Level Awards covered two categories as outlined below.

Service Awards

Haydn Myer Award – link for past winners

    • Randy Neil – Although this award is typically given for distinguished service to the society in the preceding 12 months, the group agreed to present this award to Randy in consideration of his recent passing and his long-standing support for the society (54 years).

August Dietz Award for distinguished research and writing on Civil War Philately – link for past winners

    • Patricia A. Kaufmann for her article “Ogden Handcrafted Confederate Provisional Forgeries (with Census)”.

The Civil War Philatelist Writers Award – link for past winners

    • Thomas M. Lera for his article “Rebel Archives New Discoveries: Jefferson Davis Covers and Dupree’s Old Store”.
    • John Randolph Miller for his article “Delisting Of Camp Shenandoah as an Army Field Cancel – A Dissenting Opinion”.

Exhibit Awards

CWPS Trophy for best and most comprehensive collection of Civil War stamps and/or covers at the exhibition.

    • Randolph Smith – “Coping with Adversity: How Southerners Adapted to Wartime Paper Shortages”

Research Trophy for best exhibit illustrating new knowledge/understanding of Civil War stamps, covers or postal history, or an extension to existing knowledge

    • Wayne Farley – “Western Virginia: A Period of Turmoil and Unrest”

Generals Award

    • Daniel Telep – “The Refederalization of Confederate Post Offices 1862-1869”
    • Rodney Kelley – “Arkansas Postal Operations:1861-1865”

Robert A. Siegel Memorial Award

    • Daniel Ryterband – “The American Civil War: Adversity Uses”
    • Daniel Knowles  – “United States Demonetization and Transition to the 1861 Design Stamps”.

Conrad L. Bush Award for best One-Frame Exhibit of Civil War material

    • Daniel Knowles – “Trans-Mississippi Express Mail Services by the Confederate States of America Post Office Department and Private Individuals During the American Civil War”

Click HERE to see all the Exhibit Awards and Past Winners of each.

Congrats to all!

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