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Articles of Incorporation
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HISTORY

LIBRARY

AWARDS

Eugene A. Garrett
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Lifetime Achievement
  Award

CREDITS

Rotating Photos—
Bob Yacano &
Doug Lehmann

The Philippines has a rich range of collecting areas and eras to tease philatelists.  We have the traditional areas from postage to covers plus esoteric areas such as commercial control, official business (OB), VICTORY, and specimen overprints (the latter a 100+ year heritage). Filipinos lived under four flags of Spanish, American, Japanese, and self rule—all collectible.

For Washington 2006, our members* prepared a 1-frame primer of Philippine Philately 101.   This representative material, both common and rare, is linked on the left.   Each part has 4-pages in full color virtually expanded, shrunk, and cropped for an appealing presentation.  The YouTube video is this same exhibit put to Filipino music courtesy of Linda Stanfield.  Enjoy!

*Antonio Cuesta, John Hunt, Doug Lehmann, Rick Miggins, Bill Oliver, Don Peterson, Tommy Sim, and Bob Yacano.
 

HISTORY

The International Philippine Philatelic Society (IPPS) was founded in September 1974 by Frank and Linda Stanfield and was incorporated in Manila on September 24, 1974 (SEC Registration No. 58004) as a non-profit, educational organization.  The Society was organized in Manila, but with a growing membership abroad, especially in the United States, a separate overseas operations was established by Eugene A. Garrett in 1986.  The Philippine and Overseas operations are linked together to form the IPPS with the overseas portion also APS Affiliate number 54.  The APS granted the IPPS affiliate status on September 10, 1975 thus providing a gateway service for its members looking for a Philippine society.

At the present time, IPPS-overseas operations have over 200 members from 9 countries (approximately 175 in the United States). Since its inception, IPPS has published several regular Society publications, including the Philippine Philatelic Newsletter (1974-1975), Philippine New Issue Updates (1985-1987), Philippine Philatelic News (1976-1990), IPPS News (1981-1991), and the IPPS Newsletter (1991-2004).  Today, IPPS-Overseas Operations publishes the quarterly Philippine Philatelic Journal (PPJ) pertaining to all aspects of Philippine philately, including new issues, membership news, meeting announcements, mail sales, national and international auction results, general topics, and serious research on Philippine philately.

IPPS sponsors regional and national meetings in the Philippines and United States.  The IPPS is the sponsor of the philatelic exhibition, PHILPEX, and other exhibitions in Manila; and IPPS-overseas operations was a sponsor of the world-class, international exhibition, WASHINGTON 2006, in Washington, DC. Following Eugene A.  Garrett’s passing in 1996, the Eugene A. Garrett Award was created and is awarded to the Philippine exhibit judged the most outstanding at each APS eligible World Series of Philately show.

IPPS promotes articles and books published by its members.  Published topics include serious research on the stamps and postal history of all periods. Refer to the Philippines Philatelic Book Store under Publications in this website for a list of member publications currently available.  Other IPPS-member publications currently out of print, such as Eugene A. Garrett’s A Postal History of the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, 1942-1945 (1992), are available for research purposes from the American Philatelic Society Research Library.
 

The purpose of this prestigious award is to provide meaningful recognition for quality exhibits of Philippine philatelic material and to encourage serious study of the subject.

The Award criteria are:

1. The award is available to any national-level show committee which has registered at least one exhibit directly related to Philippine philately.

2. Only one award per show is given.

3. Membership in IPPS is not required.

4. The considered exhibit shall receive no less than a show VERMEIL.

5. Presentation of the Eugene A. Garrett Award is not mandatory at any given exhibition to which it has been made available, but rather should be reserved for an exhibit of distinctive merit.

6. If an award has been applied for and received by the show committee, but not awarded for any reason, it must be returned to the IPPS Award Coordinator.

7. Within a reasonable period after the show, the show committee is asked to provide the IPPS Award Coordinator with the following information:

(a) name and address of the winner,
(b) the title of the exhibit, and (c) a list of any other awards presented to the exhibit. If the recipient wishes to remain anonymous, the IPPS Awards Coordinator should be so informed.

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

At the call of the President, a committee is formed with no less than five (5) members.  The committee is appointed for a single year and may award no more than two awards in any calendar year.

Recognized recipients to date are:

Linda and Frank* Stanfield—2009
Robert Yacano—2008
Abraham Luspo, Jr.—2008
  *deceased

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