The award was announced at the club’s annual meeting in New York on January 8, 2025.
The Collectors Club is pleased to announce that Dr. Yamil H. Kouri, Jr. of Sarasota, Fla. is this year’s winner of the Alfred F. Lichtenstein Memorial Award for Distinguished Service to Philately. The award was announced at the club’s annual meeting in New York on Jan. 8.
Kouri’s selection was unanimously endorsed by the club’s directors at the end of last year.
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Alfred F. Lichtenstein (1876-1947) was widely considered one of the greatest American philatelists of the first half of the 20th century. The award in his memory was established by the Collectors Club in 1952, and its first recipient was Lichtenstein’s good friend and co-founder of the Philatelic Foundation, Theodore Steinway.