“The present Sales Division staff
is one the best I have worked with all these years. It is a challenge
to work through the many situations created by our unique approval
system, making life in the Sales Division interesting."
“I began working part time at APS in
1974, while I was a grad student in the MBA program at Penn State.
My main responsibility was filling circuits in the Sales Division,
but I also served as janitor for a year or so and mowed Colonel DeVoss’ lawn
one summer. I moved to Colorado in 1978, then to California in 1979,
and was rehired full time by Gordon Wrenn in 1980. I served under
Gordon as Assistant Director of Sales until he retired in 1995. I
have been Director of Sales since then. I have worked for the APS
32 of the 37 years I have been a member.
“When I began working for APS, we had all of
our membership information on 3- by 5-inch or 4- by 6-inch cards
and on Addressograph plates. You weren’t a seasoned employee
until you dropped at least part of a tray of 100 metal address plates
and have to put them back in order, hoping the little tabs on them
were in the right position for the correct information they once
indicated. We have long since computerized the information in the
Society and in the Sales Division, a process I find to be interesting
and exciting.
“The present Sales Division staff is one the
best I have worked with all these years. It is a challenge to work
through the many situations created by our unique approval system,
making life in the Sales Division interesting. We are happy to help
any of our members with any problem that comes up. You would think
that we have seen everything there is to see when working with the
circuits, but we are not surprised when a new and unique situation
pops up. Helping 4,000 members regularly buy and sell stamps is very
gratifying.
“I have been a stamp collector since about
1960. My present interests include: Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania,
postal history; postal history of family locations; Scouts on stamps;
weaving (looms and spinning wheels) on stamps; Liechtenstein; post-1945
Germany; post horn cancels; and Worldwide.
“My wife Sally and I have four sons (two are
twins). They all grew up with Scouting experiences. All four (and
I) are Eagle Scouts, and all six of us are Vigil Honor members in
the Order of the Arrow. We are still heavily involved with Scouting.
I like the biking trips and Sally likes the canoe trips. We have
been members of Pine Hall Lutheran Church in State College, Pennsylvania,
since 1981, serving on the church council, teaching Sunday School
and helping with various church activities.” |
