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July 15, 2005
TOPICAL AWARDS PRESENTED BY ATA IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
The National Topical Stamp Show (NTSS) which is the only annual
all-topical national philatelic exhibition in the U.S., convened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin June
17-19, 2005. It was held in conjunction with the American Topical Association’s 56th
anniversary convention and featured 170 frames exclusively composed of thematic
exhibits.
The Grand Award winner was Joseph F. Frasch, Jr., of Ohio for
his eight-frame Gold level exhibit entitled Corpus Juris. The exhibit describes the lives of
186 men and women of the American legal profession and a history of American law. The
exhibit also won an American Philatelic Society Medal of Excellence and the newly named Don
Brenke Americana Award.
The Reserve Grand was won by Joan M. Klimchalk of Michigan for
her eight-frame Gold level exhibit entitled Santa Claus: A Living Legend. The exhibit
records the story of Santa Claus from St. Nicholas to the practices of the modern myth. This
exhibit was also selected as the Most Popular Exhibit by show attendees.
Other Gold level awards for Multi-Frame exhibits went to Jack
Andre Denys of New Jersey for Bayeaux Tapestry: Story, Mystery, History which also received
an American Philatelic Society Medal of excellence; to Robert J. Mather of Wisconsin for The
Donkey in Man’s World; and to Frederick Ziemann of Wisconsin for Wolf. This exhibit also
won the ATA Biology Unit Award.
A Gold Award also went to the ten-frame Display Class exhibit
by Larry T. Nix of Wisconsin, entitled America’s Libraries. This first Display Gold that has
ever been awarded at the NTSS also received both, an American Philatelic Society Medal of
Excellence and Research Medal as well as the American Philatelic Congress Medal. A Youth
Gold was won by Elizabeth Sharon Day of Maryland for her five-frame exhibit entitled Why I
love Horse thereby receiving the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitor’s Youth Grand
Award.
Multiple-Frame Vermeil Awards were attained by Alexander R.
Borges of Illinois for A Century of Railroad Building, also receiving an American Association
of Philatelic Exhibitor’s Honors Award and the Casey Jones Railroad Unit award; by Yukio
Onuma of Japan for Beethoven: His Life in an Historical Context; by Mary Ann Owens of New
York for Ladybeetle, Ladybird, Ladybug, also receiving an American Association of Philatelic
Exhibitor’s Honors Award; and by Greg Balagian of Rhode Island for Big Cats and Humans. A
Vermeil was also awarded to a Display Class exhibit by Harvey Edwards of Nevada for his entry
on under-water craft entitled Under the Seas, which also received the Ships on Stamps Unit
Award.
Multiple-Frame Silver Awards were garnered by Terri Edwards of
Nevada for Penguin Paradigms: Pfact and Pfiction, which also won the ATA Chapter V incentive
Award for the best exhibit by a first-time exhibitor at the National Topical Stamp Show; and
by Mirko L. Vondra of Pennsylvania for Musical Arts and Opera. Silver awards in the Display
Class went to Erik Norenins of Canada for National Parks: Paradise Lost, and to Mary Ann
Owens for The Badger. Silver awards for single-frame exhibits went to Jack H. Green of
Wisconsin for The Miracle of Apollo 13, also receiving the Space Unit Silver; to Dan Dobrescu
of Romania for the First Romanian in Space, also receiving the Space Unit Gold; and to Ann
Byerly of Louisiana for Battlefront Nurses, which also received the Medical Subjects Unit
award.
Silver-Bronze awards went to Ray E. Cartier of Texas for his
multiple frame exhibit Jules Verne: The Man and His Stories; to Jack H. Green for his single
frame exhibit, Jules Verne: Prophet of Space Travel; and to Edward J. Mangold for his single
frame exhibit, Chariots and Carriages. A Youth Silver-Bronze was garnered by A. Kenji
Shoemaker of Wisconsin for a single-frame exhibit entitled Let’s Go To The Circus.
Multiple-Frame Bronze awards went to Christopher Dahle of Iowa
for The Universal Declaration of Human Rights; to Robert Hanson of Missouri for Perceptions
of the Environment; to Ronald E. Hill for People, Places and Events on the United States on
Cuban Stamps; and to Raymond J. Sullivan of Wisconsin for The World of Lepidoptera. Single
Frame exhibits wining a Bronze award included Larry G. Canada of Louisiana for Judo: The
Gentle Way, also receiving the Sports Philatelist International certificate; and June E.
Berwald for The Gridley Family History.
Certificates were granted to John H. Evans of Maryland for Old
lory on Stamps of the World; to Robert Jobe of Wisconsin for the History of Christmas Seals;
to Dionisio T. Taeza of the Philippines for Wow Philippines; and to Robin Weidner of
Pennsylvania for Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
A Court of Honor featured George T. Guzzio’s award-winning
single frame exhibit John Augustus Roebling: The Man and His Works, and the 2004 NTSS Grand
Award exhibit on Man Beneath the Sea by Roland Essig of Wisconsin.
Non-competitive exhibits included Dear NASA prepared by Ray E.
Cartier; Wisconsin on Stamps prepared by Robert J. Mather, and a History of ATA Conventions
and Exhibitions, prepared by Donald W. Smith.
The judge’s panel was chaired by Ann Triggle of New York.
Other members of the jury included Frederick Lawrence of Arizona; Vincent P. Lucas of
Florida; Phillip Stager of Florida; and Kent Wilson of Montana.
For additional information on the American Topical Association
contact the ATA Central Office, PO Box 57, Arlington, Texas 76004-0057 (telephone
817-274-1181; fax 817-274-1184; email
americantopical@msn.com; or visit their website at
www.americantopicalassn.org.
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