Jerry, born in 1932, began collecting stamps during WWII with a collection inherited from an uncle. Like many of us do, he dropped stamps until he got hooked again while introducing them to his 9 year old daughter in 1972. Collecting didn't "take" with the daughter, but Jerry was heavily involved in stamps until his death on February 5, 2003.

A teacher and Guidance Counsellor for 28 years, Jerry was retired and spent a great deal of time in volunteer work. He started Stamporama when he got a new computer in 1996 and "looked up who was interested in stamps and started Stamporama with 6 members in January 1996".

Jerry said, at one time, "Although we are still growing, I think of Stamporama as a family of stamp collectors. I feel that every member means a lot to me and I will always be grateful that I started this great club!"

We will miss Jerry's influence and dedication to Stamporama, but we are committed to carrying on his tradition.

David's primary interests are in US postal history and military postal history. He also collects the postal history of Cleveland and postcard souvenir folders (you know, those 20 postcards of Yellowstone or Niagara Falls in a little folder). He collects Christmas seals and related (Boy's Town, Wildlife Conservation) material and is the editor of Seal News, the journal of the Christmas Seal and Charity Stamp Society.

Dan is interested in all United states stamps, but particularly the early 19th century.

US citizen with Canadian ancestry, US veteran (Vietnam) - 11 years military. Completed US government service including working for the US Post Office to acquire a government pension at 65. US stamp collector (primarily) but also collect Canada, Japan, and Indo China with a few Great Britain (pre-940), Retired but a volunteer with the Los Angeles Police Dept (Videographer). My career was in photography - Associate degree in photography (commercial). My hobbies are model trains, vinyl records (CD's) & DVD Movies. Did I mention model trains????? Married to Japanese woman for 46 years, two children (college educated) and 5 grandchildren (middle school & high school). I am an Epileptic but I keep it under control with medication. That's my whole life in a nutshell .... Perry

Liz's primary stamp collecting interests are modern issues from Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, New Zealand, Japan and Western Europe/Scandavia.

She is an active lister on the Stamporama auction under the name 'Patches'.

Saleem lives in Bhopal, India and is a very experience collector. He has pretty advanced collections of USA, Canada and Australia for a guy living in India with limited resources and help. He just recently started a used collection of France, but has not enough time to concentrate there but has got quite a good collection.

Saleem went to college, got his degree in Mechanical Engg, then worked for a while in India, went to Saudi Arabia, worked there for four years and was there during the First Gulf War. Later he worked In UAE for 4 years and came back to India to started a PC hardware business which went into slump after 3 years. Since then he is involved in Agriculture/Farming - probably the only full time farmer at SOR.

Jan-Simon has been collecting stamps since childhood, but it wasn't until the advent of the World Wide Web that he found new interest in his collection, when it turned out that there were sites where you could get in touch with collectors all over the world, to trade stamps with or for some smalltalk. Sites like Stamporama. The collection has really grown since then and after completing the obvious countries like Canada, Western Europe etc. except for the really expensive and the most recent ones, the focus is now on countries many people seem to disdain, like Chile, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Nepal and most recently Egypt. These countries are so much more interesting than those that everybody collects, but then again… there is no disputing about taste.

Besides stamps Jan-Simon spends a lot of time on other pastimes, most importantly a study and reenactment of the early Middle Ages, which takes him back some 1000 years at many weekends in summer. He also likes music a lot, tries to go to concerts whenever he can and writes for a music magazine.

Steve has been a active collector for over 40 years, he specializes in US airmail postal history particularly the Transport Airmail Issue of 1941-44, the Nickel Airmail Rate Era: 1946-48, Prexie Airmail Usages and the 5c Beacon Air Mail Stamp of 1928. All of these he collects on cover commercially used. Another area of specialization is US "Pointing Hands" Return to Sender/Writer mail. Sideline collections include illustrated hotel covers and Wild Cats. He is a member of APS, United States Stamp Society, American Air Mail Society, Auxiliary Markings Club as well as several other specialty groups. Additionally, he is the founder and moderator of the US Specialized Group (on Yahoo). Steve's greatest joy in the hobby comes from exhibiting, meeting new friends and trading. Steve maintains the Trading FAQs on the Stamporama website and takes an active part in the Discussion Board.

Tim's primary collecting interests started out being Australia, which is still what he spends most of his time with, but through the Stamporama Auction, Tim has become very interest in many of the British Commonwealth countries including Falkland Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Cape of Good Hope and Southern Rhodesia. As well as stamp collecting, Tim is a complete and utter geek (just ask his daughter), and loves to tinker with computers and supporting the Stamporama web site.