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AAPE - Youth Champion of Champions
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Once a year, AAPE sponsors a youth exhibit featuring the work of outstanding youth (primarily from the U.S. and Canada). Each participant has won a youth grand award at a nationally accredited show, as listed, in the United States or Canada, with at least a national level silver medal.

  • The program began as the American Youth Stamp Exhibiting Competition following a concept advanced by John Hotchner in 1987, which was adopted as an activity of AAPE.
  • The first chairman of AYSEC was Carl Burnett of Melbourne, Florida. He began the work of organizing in 1988, and the first running was at FLOREX '90.
  • Mike Jolly followed Burnett as Chairman, and Canadian shows were added as qualifiers. Following Jolly's untimely passing, Ada Prill took over the chair, and recast the competition as the "AAPE Youth Champion of Champions"; drawing Youth Grand Award winners from APS national shows.
  • Carol and Robert Barr are the current directors; an appointment that gives them a seat on the AAPE Board.

Directors of the Youth Exhibiting Championship since its creation:
  • 1988-1992: Carl Burnett (Florida)
  • 1992-1996: Michael Jolly (New Jersey)
  • 1997-2004: Ada Prill (New York)
  • 2004-date: Carol and Robert Barr (Illinois)

Winners of the AAPE Youth Championship since its inception:
1990Florex (Orlando)Christine Jolly"Postal Markings of Ireland to the Reforms of 1857"
1991Omaha Stamp ShowMark Sawyer"Germania Issues of 1900-1922"
1992World Columbian (Chicago)Kathryn Yadon"The Bank Note Issues of 1870-1890"
1993Sescal (Los Angeles)Andrew Kelley"2c Red Washington Head, 1922"
1994Philadelphia National Stamp ShowCharlotte Verge"The Owls"
1995ChicagopexCharles Vukotich"U.S. Bulk Letters: False Frankings 2/3/91-12/31/94"
1996Indypex (Indianapolis)Joyce Adams"The Quetzal Bird in Guatemalan Philately"
1997IndypexEllice Miller"How Writers Use Flowers to Interpret Their Ideas"
1998Greater Toronto Stamp ShowTim Jones"The History of Man's Flight in the Earth's Atmosphere"
1999Peach State Stamp Show (Atlanta)Devin Shane Luster"Basketball"
2000IndypexJohn Ryle"Indiana 4-Bars - Types and Usages"
2001National Topical Stamp ShowDzintars Grinfelds"The 'Three-Star' Coat of Arms Issue of Latvia, 1922-1933"
2002National Topical Stamp ShowKent Kuran"Postal History of California to 1900"
2003NAPEX (McLean, Va)Dzintars Grinfelds"The 'Three-Star' Coat of Arms Issue of Latvia, 1922-1933"
2004IndypexAmber Reilly"In Come the Pigs"
2005ROPEX (Rochester, NY)Dzintars Grinfelds"Central Lithuania"
2006IndypexKurt Glatzfelder"The Vostok Program"
2007National Topical Stamp ShowAlyssah Xenia C. Alcala"Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II"
2008IndypexDzintars Grinfelds"The 'Three-Star' Issues of Latvia, 1921-1923"

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