Kern & McLeod

On the second row, the first stamp commemorates the music composor Jerone Kern, and the second the educator Mary McLeod Bethune.

Jerome Kern

Kern was a musical composor, especially for Broadway musicals in the early part of the Twentieth Century. He worked on musicals with Oscar Hammerstein, Ira Gershwin, and one of my favorite writers, P. G. Wodehouse. He also wrote songs for Hollywood movies, including ones starting Rita Hayworth, Cary Grant, and Fred Astaire.

Mary McLeod

McLeod was an educator who fought for civil rights in the early part of the Twentieth Century. In 1904, she founded a school in Daytona, Florida for African American women. It would later become Bethune–Cookman University. In the 1930s, she was an advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt on African American matters and youth orgnizations.

Note

These aren’t very well done stamps, except for the ones for veterans on the fourth row. I thought about writing something about them, but decided the stories behind some of the people depicted here is better.

Contains 14 spots: own 14 – 14 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Olympics

1.1

✓

2142

Special Winter Olympics

22c (mar 1985)
comm., multicolor

Famous Americans

2.1	✓	2110	Jerome Kern	22c (jan 1985) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	2137	Mary Bethune	22c (mar 1985) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	2146	Abigail Adams	22c (jun 1985) comm., multicolor
2.4	✓	2159	Public Education	22c (oct 1985) comm., multicolor

Other

3.1	✓	2144	Rural Electrification Admin.	22c (may 1985) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	2145	Ameripex 1986	22c (may 1985) comm., multicolor
3.3	✓	2147	F.A. Bartholdi	22c (jul 1985) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	2152	Korean War Veterans	22c (jul 1985) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	2153	Social Security Act	22c (aug 1985) comm., light blue & deep blue
4.3	✓	2154	World War I Veterans	22c (aug 1985) comm., pink red & grey green
5.1	✓	2164	End Hunger	22c (oct 1985) comm., multicolor

Christmas & Holidays

5.2	✓	2165	Genoa Madonna Luca Della Robbia	22c (oct 1985) comm., multicolor
5.3	✓	2166	Poinsettia Plants	22c (oct 1985) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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