From: stamps@optonline.net   
      
   Ken Lawrence of Pennsylvania will be chief judge for Americover 2008,   
   the annual show and convention of the American First Day Cover   
   Society.   
      
   He will be joined on the exhibition jury by Harvey Tilles of North   
   Carolina, Peter Martin of Connecticut, Tony Wawrukiewicz of Oregon,   
   and Charles Verge of Ontario. Steven Zwillinger of Maryland is the   
   apprentice.   
      
   The three-day World Series of Philately show will be held August 22-24   
   at the Fairview Park Marriott Hotel in Falls Church, Va., 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. A first day of issue ceremony and a forum by   
   postal officials involved with first day covers is also likely.   
      
   Eliot Landau, a veteran WSP and first day cover exhibitor, won the   
   Grand Award for best exhibit at Americover 2007 for his "The Franklin   
   Delano Roosevelt Memorial Series of 1945-46 and It's First Day Covers   
   and Use." He will represent Americover at the WSP Champion of   
   Champions competition one week before Americover 2008, during   
   StampShow 2008 in Hartford, Conn.   
      
   Lawrence is a prolific researcher and author on many philatelic fronts   
   but especially 20th century United States stamps and postal history.   
   His articles appear in numerous journals and he has authored books on   
   plate number coils and the Liberty series of postage stamps. He has   
   been a consultant to a number of collectors and exhibitors of first   
   day covers.   
      
   Martin is a past editor of First Days, Scott Stamp Monthly, and the   
   American Philatelist, and has authored many articles in the philatelic   
   press on revenue stamps and postal history of the National Parks,   
   among other topics.   
      
   Tilles was a founder and first president of the North Carolina Postal   
   History Society. He currently serves on the boards of the Postal   
   History Society and the Military Postal History Society.   
      
   Verge is immediate past president of the Royal Philatelic Society of   
   Canada and is an international author, exhibitor and FIP judge. He is   
   also past president of the Éire Philatelic Association and the   
   American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors, and a consultant to   
   Canada Post, the Canadian Postal Museum, and the Canadian Stamp   
   Dealers Association.   
      
   Wawrukiewicz is a specialist in the postal rates and auxiliary   
   markings of the United States. He has exhibited modern U.S. postal   
   history and authors a column on this subject in Linn's Stamp News.   
      
   Zwillinger collects, exhibits, and authors articles on the cachets of   
   Burma, India, Aden, British Somaliland, and Sudan, and has exhibited   
   these areas at Americover and other national shows.   
      
   The Americover 2008 prospectus and exhibit application may soon be   
   downloaded from the AFDCS Web site, www.afdcs.org, or requested by   
   mail from Norman Elrod, 641 Dogwood Trail, McMinnville, TN 37110-3015,   
   or e-mail at ShowInfo@afdcs.org. A business-size self-addressed   
   stamped envelope would be appreciated for hard-copy requests.   
      
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