From: stamps@optonline.net   
      
   ILLYEFALVI TO HEAD AMERICOVER 2007 EXHIBITION JURY   
      
   Kalman V. Illyefalvi of Maryland will be chief judge for Americover   
   2007, the annual show and convention of the American First Day Cover   
   Society.   
      
   He will be joined on the exhibition jury by Ronald E. Lesher of   
   Maryland; Douglas Clark of Massachusetts; William Schultz of   
   Pennsylvania; and Stephen Suffet of New York.   
      
   The three-day World Series of Philately show will be held August 17-19   
   at the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa, and will feature a large   
   mostly-FDC bourse, cachetmakers bourse, top exhibits, a banquet,   
   meetings, seminars, youth booth, pre-show area tour and post-show   
   dinner event.   
      
   The U.S. Postal Service's new Celebrate! stamp will be issued during   
   the show, too.   
      
   Charles J. "Chuck" O'Brien III, a veteran WSP and first day cover   
   exhibitor, won the Grand Award for best exhibit at Americover 2006 for   
   his "Joint Issues with the United States 1959-1994." His "Georgia   
   Bicentennial 1733-1933" picked up the Reserve Grand, as well as the   
   APS Award of Excellence for 1900-1940 Material and the United States   
   Stamp Society Statue of Freedom Award.   
      
   Illyefalvi collects and exhibits FDCs as well as postal stationery and   
   postal history of Hungary and South Africa. He was instrumental in   
   establishing the original guidelines for judging first day covers and   
   is an international judge.   
      
   Lesher is a specialist in United States revenue stamps and also   
   collects Netherlands and France, among other areas. An international   
   judge, he serves as the U.S. representative to the International   
   Federation of Philately's commission on revenues and is vice president   
   of the commission's bureau. He is a past president of the American   
   Revenue Association.   
      
   Clark collects and exhibits postal history and postal stationery, as   
   well as mobile post office mail. He is a past president of the Mobile   
   Post Office Society and current president of the Postal History   
   Society. He is also an international judge, and exhibits United States   
   postal stationery FDCs.   
      
   Schultz specializes in Pennsylvania state postal history, among other   
   collecting areas, and is past president of the Pennsylvania Postal   
   History Society. He has written and edited articles on postal history   
   and was author of the first catalog on Rattlesnake Island Post, which   
   became a runaway best seller.   
      
   Suffet collects and exhibits thematics, U.S. postal history,   
   stationery and first day covers. He formed an outstanding collection   
   of the rates and usages of the U.S. Presidential series that has won   
   national grand awards.   
      
   The Americover 2007 prospectus and exhibit application may be   
   downloaded from the AFDCS Web site, www.afdcs.org, or requested by   
   e-mail from Norman Elrod, nelrod@infoave.net. A business-size   
   self-addressed stamped envelope would be appreciated.   
      
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