"I guess you would call me the ‘Old Timer’ of the APS employees. I started working here two week after graduation in 1967!"

“I began in the Administration Department, which handles all membership information, and I still work for the same department keeping the Society’s records up-to-date. One of things I do is schedule and send slide programs to chapters. I do enjoy this part of the job because I get to talk to some of the members and after awhile they start to feel like old friends when they call.

“When I first started to work for the APS, I never dreamed I would stay on to see four different Executive Directors and four different buildings during my career. Remembering back to the beginning, I first went to work in a small office in downtown State College, one large room that held everything that was offered to members, and maybe 10 or 12 employees. Things have changed since then ― and, I would say, for the better. Services such as the library, the sales division, and The American Philatelist that were once scattered all over the country are now centralized at one location. 

“I travel only six miles round trip to work each day. If you come here on Interstate 80 and follow Route 150 South to the American Philatelic Center in Bellefonte, you’ll pass right through my little town, which has about 1,150 people. I have lived in the Milesburg all my life ― in the house my grandmother was born in ― with my sister, my nephew, and several happy cats.