{"id":11526,"date":"2015-07-04T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T13:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2015-07-04T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T13:45:23","slug":"national-league-of-postmasters-elects-new-exec-board-postmaster-of-year-named-and-oscar-pogue-award-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/07\/04\/national-league-of-postmasters-elects-new-exec-board-postmaster-of-year-named-and-oscar-pogue-award-given\/","title":{"rendered":"National League of Postmasters Elects New Exec Board, Postmaster of Year Named and Oscar Pogue Award Given"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newly installed National Executive Board of the National League of Postmasters at the National Convention on Thurs., July 2, 2015 included: President Sean Acord, Executive Vice President Mike Engleman, Vice Presidents Shelly Stigall, Gary Choice, Catherine Winnie and David Weber as well as Secretary\/Treasurer Stephanie Jett and Retiree President John Olson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lauded and honored with the Oscar Pogue Award was Jack Jameson of North Carolina, a former National Executive Board member for many years, lastly Executive Vice President, as well earning this year\u2019s prestigious Eagle Award for outstanding membership recruitment. Jack is now retired.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Norma J. Powell of California received the LEAGUE Postmaster of the Year award recognized for not only her professionalism as a Postmaster but for her community involvement along with serving on many LEAGUE committees and holding various positions at the state level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2016 LEAGUE Calendar photo contest winners were: PM Tammy Rokusek, Lake Andes SD; PM Beth Rioux, Fairfield ID; PM Chuck Wells, Oologah OK; PM Linda Augustosky, North Tazwell VA; PM Tamara Cummings, Butler MO; PM Kandice Diskin, Marcola OI; M (Ret) Gena Nelson, Scottville MI; PM (Ret) Danny Close, Bowling Green KY; PM Denise Serensky, Columbiana OH; PM Nancy Kuszpa, Botsford CT; PM Douglas Bardot, Canterbury CT; and PM (Ret) Ron Shafer, Marion OH.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In honors for LEAGUE Branch newsletters were: Best Large Circulation Newsletter, The Golden State Postmaster, John Paul Cabral, Editor; Medium Circulation, The Leaguette, Ann Joos, Editor; Small Circulation, The Posthorn, Cynthia Lofthus, Editor; Best Use of Photos, The Prairie Leaguer, Carla Zuhlsdorf, Editor; Best Educational Forum, The Ohio Leaguer, Hazel Boettcher, Editor; National Newsletter of the Year, The Washington Postmaster, Milly Kropp; and Editor Emeritus, Lifetime Achievement Award, Brian Oakes, The Arizona Leaguer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Winners for Best State Websites for 2015 were: Arizona, California, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina and Oregon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony Leonardi, Napus President, spoke of the efforts of both the LEAGUE and Napus in the work done to prepare the merger of the two organizations as UPMA, United Postmasters & Managers of America. While the LEAGUE voted to go ahead with UPMA earlier this week, the final say from Napus has been overwhelming acceptance with 47 state conventions okaying the move as of today, noted Leonardi. \u201cThere are no end runs and no hidden agendas,\u201d affirmed Leonardi. The LEAGUE and Napus will hold joint conventions the end of August 2016 in New Orleans with the expectation that UPMA will be the official organization as of November 1, 2016, following the closure of the former associations.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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The newly installed National Executive Board of the National League of Postmasters at the National Convention on Thurs., July 2, 2015 included: President Sean Acord, Executive Vice President Mike Engleman, Vice Presidents Shelly Stigall, Gary Choice, Catherine Winnie and David Weber as well as Secretary\/Treasurer Stephanie Jett and Retiree President John Olson.\u00a0 Lauded and honored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11527,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions\/11527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}