October 2005
2005 PRESIDENT'S MEDAL GOES TO RICHARD MALOTT

Charles J.G. Verge, President of The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC), has announced that Richard K. Malott is the 2005 recipient of the President’s Medal which honours individuals or organizations for their outstanding contribution to the hobby.

Verge, who instituted the President’s Medal in 2000, did not “think it would be awarded annually, but the vibrancy of our hobby has allowed me to make it an annul presentation.” The 2004 medal was merited by Michael Madesker, RDP, FRPSC,. Richard Malott also joins Kasimir Bileski, (2000) Denis Masse (2001) and Ron Brigham (2002) as recipients of the president’s medal. The 2003 winner was the Canadian Postal Archives.

Richard (Dick) Kenneth Malott was born in Windsor, Ontario and grew up in nearby Kingsville where he started collecting stamps at five years old at the suggestion of a United Church minister. Rev. Creasy provided monthly packages of free stamps to youngsters “who neatly prepared their postage stamp albums.”

The plan worked well for the young Malott because it was a pattern he took into his lifetime of collecting having won numerous national and international awards for his exhibits, including at least eight large golds at the international level.

Malott’s central focus for many years has been aerophilately. In the 1950s, he “got hooked” on pilot-signed flight covers, pioneer flights, and related material. He sold a collection of OHMS and G stamps plate blocks and “started on my air mail quest.”

His quest saw him to amass extensive data on air mail philately which is now housed at the Canadian Postal Archives and Library. This exceptional collection of material required a 110-page finder’s guide.

At present Dick Malott is a member of almost 20 philatelic or aerophilatelic societies. He has been a long-time member of The RPSC where he has held several positions, especially appointments as commissioner and judge to many international philatelic exhibitions. He has been president of the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society since 1993. For his contribution to stamp collecting, he was named a Fellow of the RPSC in 1986.

Other awards include membership in the AAMS Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame (1996), and the Gus Lancaster Award of the Metropolitan Airmail Philatelic Society for the Advancement of Aerophilately in the U.S. and Canada.

Dick Malott says “it is a special honour to receive the President’s Medal.” For Charles Verge, he is a “worthy recipient who has always given his best effort to the hobby. His work for and interest in aerophilately is probably unmatched in North America.”

Information on The RPSC is available by e-mail: < info@rpsc.org > or by visiting the Society’s website at < www.rpsc.org > or call 416-979-8874.

For more information contact:
Michael O. Nowlan 506-357-2698
Daryl Oliver 416-979-8874