American First Day Cover Society names Morgan as membership department chair

By Linn’s Staff

The American First Day Cover Society named Patrick Morgan the new chair of its membership department and a member of its executive committee, society president Lloyd de Vries said in a Nov. 20 press release.

Morgan spent 25 years managing infrastructure architecture at IBM before retiring. He holds an MBA from Washington University and has served four years on the board of the St. Louis affiliate of the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation.

Morgan is also a member of the American Philatelic Society, American Topical Association, Poster Stamp Collectors Club and Greater Mound City Stamp Club, where he serves as treasurer.

He collects topical and Artmaster airmail first-day covers, in addition to postal cards with Fleetwood cachets. His articles have appeared in First Days and Topical Time, the journals of the American First Day Cover Society and American Topical Association, respectively.

Morgan succeeds Foster Miller, who had been the chair of the membership department since 2008. Miller will remain chair of the sales department, de Vries said, and is also on the board.

“We could not have made it through the past few years without Foster reconstructing and then maintaining our membership records,” de Vries said. “Now, however, I want to lighten his load and also put more emphasis on recruitment and retention of members.”

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; is a co-sponsor of the annual Great American Stamp Show; conducts an annual cachetmaking contest; and encourages philatelic exhibiting and writing about FDCs.

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

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