FIP Astrophilately Commission History 2022 – 1985

2008 Delegates’ and Bureau Meeting during EFIRO 2008 FIP World Exhibition held in Bucharest, Romania.

FIP Guide to Astrophilately.

Work on the replacement Guide which are called, An Illustrated Seminar on the Guidelines for Judging and Exhibiting Astrophilately Exhibits – New Edition 2008, was completed and a CD-ROM was made available for delegates at the Bucharest Delegates’ meeting. The CD-ROMs were recorded and distributed among the Delegates by Charles Bromser. The Guide has 160 pages with many of illustrations. Thanks to Charles Bromser, the Guide is available in MS PowerPoint and PDF formats. It has been a great joint effort with input from all Bureau members and other Astrophilately experts Beatrice Bachman (CH), Bart Beimers (NL), Dr Hans Ferdinand Virnich (DE).

Elections in the Bureau of the Section for Astrophilately.

Chairman: Igor Rodin (Russia), new;

Secretary: Jaromir Matejka (Austria), new as a secretary;

Bureau Members:

Julius Cacka (Czech Republic), new;

Mak Che King (Hong Kong), new

During the FIP Congress held after the EFIRO 08 closure, Mr. Grandela was awarded by the FIP President, Mr. Joseph Wolff, with the Service Medal of the FIP in appreciation for his intense and long term dedication as Chairman of the Section for Astrophilately.

As per the motion approved at the 69^th FIP Congress, the Chairman of the Section, Igor Rodin nominated Charles Bromser (Australia) and Reuben Ramkissoon (USA), as Bureau Members.

 

2007 St. Petersburg’2007 FIP World Exhibition.

The Astrophilatelic exhibits were awarded : 3 Golds; 1 Large Silver; 1 Silver; and 1 Silver Bronze medals.

Chairman of the Section, Jose. Grandela had four meetings with the Vice-President of the FIP Board and Coordinator of the Section for Astrophilately, Mr. Fernando Aranaz.

Per the motion approved at the 69th FIP Congress, Chairman of the Section, Jose Grandela nominated Igor Rodin, Russia as a Bureau Member.

 

Delegate and Bureau Meeting at España 2006 FIP World Exhibition.

The Bureau Meeting and Delegates’ Conference took place on October 12. Three members of the Bureau were present (Chairman, Secretary and the representative for Europe), and 35 countries out of 57 members were present or represented by proxy.

The 69^th FIP Congress approved the motion that was worded as follows: Prior to the 2008 Congress, Commission Chairmen may add, up to two additional Bureau members, the Commission/Section Chairman would have the right to nominate person(s) of his own choice within the ranks of the delegates of those Commissions. This will be under the supervision of the directors of the FIP responsible for those Commissions.

Washington 2006 FIP World Exhibition invited 3 Astrophilatelic Exhibits for the  Court of Honour / Invited Class:

From the Beginning of Space Exploration to Space Mail by Beatrice Bachmann, Switzerland;

The Development of the United States Lunar Exploration by Reuben Ramkissoon, United States;

The First Man on the Moon: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Moon Landing by Paul and Chris Calle.

Seminar on Astrophilately, by Dr Ben Ramkissoon and Beatrice Bachman. Mrs Bachmann was the principal presenter, giving an extensively illustrated presentation of the little known balloon and pioneering stratospheric balloon flights. There was much interest shown by the audience and questions and comments followed.

 

2005 “Pacific Explorer 2005” FIP Exhibition. Astrophilatelic exhibits were awarded with: one Large Gold plus Special Prize, and two Vermeils Medals. Chairman of the Section Jose Grandela had five meetings with the Director of the FIP Board and Coordinator of the Section for Astrophilately, Mr. Fernando Aranaz, to deal with subjects directly related with such responsibility.

Singapore’2004. World Stamp Championship 2004.

Best Exhibit of the Class of Astrophilately was Igor Rodin’s exhibit Space Mail from Salyuts to Mir.  The delegates’ meeting at the frames of Singapore’2004 FIP exhibition. All the six Bureau members plus twenty-five FIP Members were present or represented by proxy at the event. The delegates’ meeting was chaired by Jose M. Grandela under the supervision of Mr. Fernando Aranaz, FIP Coordinator for Astrophilately.  Mr. Eliseo R. Otero, FIP Vice-president, and Mr. Egil Thomassen, Chairman of the FIP Commission for Aerophilately honoured the meeting.

Elections in the Bureau of the Section for Astrophilately:

Chairman: Jose M. Grandela (Spain), re-elected,

Secretary: Jean Louis Lafon (France), re-elected,

Bureau Members:

Reuben A. Ramkissoon (USA), representing America, re-elected,

Charles Bromser (Australia), representing Asia/Oceania, re-elected,

Jaromir Matejka (Austria), representing Europe, re-elected

 

2004 Seminar on Astrophilately at ESPAÑA 2004 (Valencia)

The seminar was conducted by the Chairman of the Section, Jose M. Grandela. Three Bureau members (Mrs. Beatrice Bachmann, Mr. Jean Louis Lafon, and Mr. Jose M. Grandela), plus 14 National Delegates and some exhibitors, represented a total of 19 countries at the Seminar. Soviet cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko, President of the Union of Philatelists of Russia took part in the event.  Jose M. Grandela made a report about New solid evidence of correspondence carried from US submarines by Regulus I and Regulus II missiles accompanied with slides. Igor Rodin, Vice-President of the Union of Philatelists of Russia prepared an hour lecture Appropriate and non-appropriate material suitable in an astrophilatelic exhibit  with a PowerPoint slide-show. The Seminar was held in English and translated into Spanish by Jose M. Grandela.

All the entries (11) received at ESPAÑA 2004 in the competition Class of Astrophilately were accepted by the Organising Committee, attending the request of the Chairman of the Section with the priceless help of Mr. Fernando Aranaz., FIP Director.

2003 Summary Guide for Astrophilately was prepared by Beatrice Bachmann, a Bureau member.  Exhibits in the competition class of Astrophilately admitted in the FIP World Exhibition Bangkok’ 2003, have been awarded with: three Gold, one Large Vermeil, and two Large Silver Medals.

 

2002 Delegates Meeting at Seoul on August 8.

Five of the seven Bureau members attended the meeting. Eighteen countries were present or represented by proxy. There was also one observer from the nited Arab Emirates.  Delegates meeting was held under the supervision of Mr. Fernando Aranaz, FIP Coordinator for Astrophilately.  Mr. Knud Mohr, FIP President welcomed the delegates and referred to some projects of FIP. Mr. Gorbatko, USSR cosmonaut and President of the Russian Union of Philately was also present.

 

Delegate’s Meeting with Elections during Espana’2000 FIP World Exhibition.

Thanks to Fernando Aranaz, President of the World exhibition ESPANA’2000, 20 exhibits from 13 countries were entered in the Class of Astrophilately and 1 exhibit was invited to the Class of Honour. The awards were: 3 Gold, 4 Large Vermeil, 4 Vermeil medals, was gratifyingly high.

Attendance of Delegates, alternate Delegates and Proxies was 37. Observer and Guests 6.  Special welcome was extended to the President of the Commission for Aerophilately, Egil Thomassen and FIP Vice President, Patrick Pearson, Coordinator to the Section.

During the elections for the Bureau of the Section, Beatrice Bachmann gave the floor to FIP Vice President, Patrick Pearson, to conduct the elections, with also thanks for the good co-operation, since his appointment as Co-ordinator to the Section in 1998.

Francis Kiddle, at the invitation of Patrick Pearson, warmly thanked Beatrice Bachmann for her immense contribution to Astrophilately. She had developed the science and established the credibility of what is a very challenging discipline, from first principles. Without her enthusiasm and skills, Astrophilately would not exist, let alone being a growing area of interest within FIP. His comments were applauded and endorsed by all present.

The result of the election was:

For Leader (Chairman): José Grandela, Spain, new.

For Bureau members:

Charles Bromser, Australia new,

Jean-Louis Lafon, France new,

Prof. Riggi di Numana, Italy new,

Jaromir Matejka, Austria re-elected,

Dr Reuben Ramkissoon re-elected,

Beatrice Bachmann.

Beatrice Bachmann gave her warmest congratulations to the new elected Leader (Chairman) with best wishes for the future and with thanks for the long-time of friendly co-operation with him as Bureau member. She also congratulated the new and re-elected Bureau-members.  Concluding the elections, she expressed sincere thanks to the three Bureau members who did not stand for re-election. Ingolf Kapelrud, who had been nominated for election as President of the Thematic Commission, Francis Kiddle, who was the candidate for election as President of the Commission for Literature and Peter Wilhelm who collaborated as Bureau member for 12 years.

At the FIP Congress at ESPANA’2000 Beatrice Bachmann was honoured with the FIP Medal for Service – the most prestigious recognition awarded by the FIP for exceptional continuing long-term service to organised philately at the international level.

2000 Comments to Proposed Changes in the FIP Statutes.

In March 2000, the Commission Presidents and the Section Leader were asked by the FIP President Knud Mohr to give their opinion on some changes to the Statutes. As Leader of the Section for Astrophilately, Beatrice Bachmann took necessary measures to correct the omission of the “Section” in the new “Commission” structure. As a positive result the FIP Board granted to correct the omission and integrated the word Section wherever Commissions are mentioned in the FIP Statutes.