The APS Hall of Fame was established at the 1940 APS Convention following the suggestion that outstanding deceased philatelists be honored just as the then-newly created APS Luff Award honors outstanding living philatelists. To be elected, APS Hall of Fame nominees must have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of national or international philately.
Anthony S. Wawrukiewicz, 1943-2023
Anthony “Tony” Wawrukiewicz was an accomplished philatelic author, researcher, exhibitor,
and judge. With Henry Beecher, he co-authored books on United States postal rates, both domestic and foreign, and revised and updated them. He also published books on postal rates of Canada and Great Britain. He enabled key U.S. government publications to be posted online, including the U.S. Postal Bulletins, U.S. Postal Laws and Regulations, U.S. Postal Guides, and Postal Manuals for use by researchers.
Wawrukiewicz authored and co-authored other books on New York auxiliary markings; the U.S. Liberty Series; topics on U.S. postal history, 1794-2019; forwarding of mail; and the uses of U.S. postage due stamps. He wrote a column on modern U.S. postal history in Linn’s Stamp News for nearly 20 years.
Wawrukiewicz in 2013 was named to the Writers Unit #30 Hall of Fame and received the Charles J. Peterson philatelic literature life achievement award in 2020. He was honored with the 2002 Luff Award for Distinguished Philatelic Research. Other awards include the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society’s Elliott Perry Cup and Stanley Ashbrook Cup, and a Distinguished Philatelist, and the American Philatelic Congress Diane D. Boehret award.
Wawrukiewicz served on several committees and also chaired the PIPEX World Series show in Portland, Oregon over the years. He was founding editor of the newsletter of the Auxiliary Markings Club, which position he held for nearly 20 years.
Janet R. Klug, 1950-2023
Janet Klug served the APS as secretary, on the board of vice presidents, and as the first woman president, as well as a member of several committees and as chair of the Committee on the Accreditation of National Exhibitions and Judges. Her service to the hobby extended well beyond the American Philatelic Society and includes founder and editor of the Tonga & Tin Can
Mail Study Circle, vice chair of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum’s Council of Philatelists
and chair of its new initiatives committee, secretary-treasurer of the American Philatelic Congress, and chair of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee.
Klug authored regular columns in Global Stamp News, Stamp Collector, Linn’s Stamp News, Scott’s Stamp Monthly, and The American Philatelist. She wrote books such as The Catalog of Tin Can Mail Cachets of the Tonga Islands, and the Smithsonian Guide to Stamp Collecting, and coauthored with Don Sundman The 100 Greatest American Stamps. In 2010 she was inducted into the Writers Unit #30 Hall of Fame. In 2014, she received the Luff Award for Outstanding Service to the APS, and in 2019 was honored with the Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement award.
Herbert A. Trenchard, 1931-2023
Herbert “Herb” Trenchard is recognized as the dean of United States philatelic history. While most collectors in the hobby seek stamps and covers, Trenchard focused on material related to the history of stamp collecting, including auction catalogs, exhibition catalogs, profiles of famous stamp collectors, forgers and forgeries, first day ceremonies, and ephemera related to local clubs as well as national and international philatelic events.
Trenchard was past president of the Washington (D.C.) Philatelic Society, a board member of the NAPEX World Series of Philately show, board of directors of the U.S. international SIPEX exhibition in 1966, longtime member of the board of trustees of the APRL including vice president of the board, APS historian, and member of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum’s Council of Philatelists. He was a member and then chairman of the APS Hall of Fame Committee.
Trenchard’s articles have appeared in Philatelic Literature Review, for which he was associate editor, The Penny Post, the Collectors Club Philatelist, The American Philatelist, Postal
History Journal, Linn’s Stamp News, the Chronicle of the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, United States Specialist, and First Days among others. He was a veteran volunteer at both the National Postal Museum and the American Philatelic Society.
In 1992, Trenchard received the APS Luff Award for Outstanding Service to the American Philatelic Society, and in 1998 he was inducted into the Writers Unit #30 Hall of Fame. He was named a distinguished philatelist by the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society in 2003 and in 2006 he received the Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award.
Kenneth B. Grant, 1948-2023
Kenneth “Ken” Grant was former secretary of the American Philatelic Society and president of
the American Philatelic Research Library. He served many years on the APRL Board of Trustees as well as on several APS committees, including the USSS-Mueller award committee, the Charles J. Peterson Philatelic Literature Life Achievement Award, and the strategic planning committee. In 2020 he was honored with the Luff Award for outstanding service to the APS.
He was a proud supporter of the APS and served many years on the Campaign for Philately committee. He was one of the society leaders who signed the paperwork to purchase the Match Factory for the APS headquarters and was involved with every aspect of its construction up until its completion in 2016. During his administration the mortgage debt on the Match Factory was retired 15 years ahead of schedule.
Grant served many roles in local and state philatelic organizations and served on the board of the Postal History Society. His articles appeared in Philatelic Literature Review, Badger Postal Historian, and Across the Fence, among others. He edited several publications, including The Cinderella Philatelist. Four shelves in the APRL house the Kenneth B. Grant Cinderella Collection. In 2018, he was named to the Cinderella Stamp Club’s Maurice Williams Roll of Notable Cinderella Philatelists.
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