American First Day Cover Society names Gibson as executive secretary

Dec 3, 2024, 10 AM

By Linn’s Staff

The American First Day Cover Society named Debra “Deb” Gibson as executive secretary and updated its mailing

address.

The mailing address of the American First Day Cover Society is now Box 57, Somerset, WI 54025-0057. The office telephone number remains 540-940-1629, and the email address still is afdcs@afdcs.org.

As executive secretary, Gibson also will be a member of the American First Day Cover Society executive committee. She attends many stamp shows each year with her husband, gold-medal first-day cover exhibitor Rick Gibson.

Gibson spent more than 29 years in the U.S. Air Force, with most of that time working in intelligence at postings all over the country. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud University and a Master of Science degree in strategic intelligence from American Military University.

The American First Day Cover Society is the largest not-for-profit first-day-cover society in the world, with members in more than a dozen countries. It publishes an award-winning journal, First Days, six times a year; holds fundraising auctions; conducts an annual cachetmaking contest; and encourages philatelic exhibiting and writing about FDCs.

The society is a co-sponsor of the 2025 Great American Stamp Show Aug. 17-20 in Schaumburg, Ill., and will sponsor its own Americover show in 2026.

More information about the American First Day Cover Society is available on the AFDCS website or by writing the AFDCS at Box 57, Somerset, WI 54025-0057.

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