Bob Rawlins, USCS #5490 Looking back, I often wish that I had known about the USCS when I was a midshipman at the Naval Academy during WWII. Or even after I was commissioned in 1947 as an Ensign. Then, I…
Cunningham, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Cunningham, USCS #2763 Joseph and I have corresponded some over the past 10 years and I’ve learned something about his service life and work life and I thought it would be interesting reading for USCS members. Joseph was…
Wallster, Everett E.
Everett W. Wallster, USCS #H-14 To this point the Member of the Month articles have been about current USCS members. Perhaps some day future naval cover collectors will find them interesting and will give them an insight about those that…
Briddell, York
York Briddell, USCS #H-1 (If York Briddle and John Young could have crossed paths in late 1935, this is York’s story as he would have told it to John. USCS Bulletins were used by John for some of the research…
Smith, Glenn
Glenn Smith, USCS #8073 with his favorite former shipmate, RDML Michelle Howard In 1951, when I was 10, I walked into a stamp dealer’s store in Mobile, Alabama (in those days, 10 year-old boys could do such things, safely).…
McDevitt, James Edward Sr.
James Edward McDevitt, Sr., USCS #5860 Jim joined the USCS back in 1967. Jim’s interests are Coast Guard related philatelic material, USS Maine (SSBN-741) philatelic material and Chess on Stamps. (Well, 2 out of 3 are a great fit with…
Groh, Larry
Larry Groh, USCS #920 I became a collector of Naval covers while I was a general stamp collector going back to 1929; but it might have been earlier than 1935. My big problem is that I disposed of most of…
Quintero, Robert
Robert Quintero, USCS #3893 Robert (Bob) has been very active in naval cover collecting, printing over 200,000 covers with over 350 printed cachets. He also produced around 65 rubber stamp cachets as well as hand drawn covers featuring his “Q-maids”,…
Kuntz, Fred
Fred Kuntz, USCS #3411 Fred is one of a few 50+ year members of USCS, joining in 1956 while a sophomore in high school. His father was a naval officer (CWO-4) stationed at NATO Headquarters-Western Atlantic in Norfolk, Virginia. His…
Boss, Bill
Bill Boss, USCS #9068 I began collecting stamps in 1933 at 10 years of age and living in Tyler, Texas. The economy was in a severe depression so most of my stamps were used and of little value but I…