July 12–14, 2002
Chicago Marriott Oak Brook Hotel
Oak Brook, Illinois

Grand and Gold
Project Mercury: The Day the US Post Office Department Surprised the World
Douglas A. Kelsey

Gold
Myron F. McCamley: Seventy Years of FDC Cachet Making
Ralph H. Nafziger
also
Richard H. Thompson Award

Vermeil
First Day Covers of Regular Postage Stamps: 1922-1935
David H. Ahl
also
American Philatelic Society 1900-1940 Medal of Excellence

Dave Bennett's Wild & Wacky First Day Covers
David H. Ahl
also
American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Award of Honor
American Philatelic Society Post 1980 Medal of Excellence
Herman Franz Fluegel Award

The Beacon
David N. Bize
also
Lawrence S. Fisher Award

The Ten Year Experiment: Luminescent Tagging on US FDCs, 1963-1973
Robert C. Dix
also
American Philatelic Society 1940-1980 Medal of Excellence

Cachet Varieties of the 1938 Presidential Issue
Elliott Idoff

World War II Era U.S. First Day Covers with Civil Censor Markings
Marjory J. Sente

Silver
America Down Under
Noel G. Almeida
also
Leo & Samuel August Memorial Award

"Toward United Nations": First Day Covers, April 25, 1945
Benjamin H. Cohen

Fluegel Era
Byron L. Davis
also
Windfred M. Grandy Award

Experimental Luminescent Tagging and Tagging-Omitted Errors on U.S. First Day and Earliest Known Use Covers
Robert C. Dix

No Glow
Robert C. Dix

John Glenn: Two Firsts in Space
John H. Hayner

Alaska's 1964 Good Friday Earthquake
Duane M. Heverling

Those Magnificent Machins
Paul J. Phillips

Scott Joplin: King of Ragtime Composers
Marilyn J. Rigano
also
American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Award of Honor

Silver Bronze
Tagging in Transition
Robert C. Dix

Man for His Country: The Patriotic Cachets of Jacques Minkus Used as First Day Covers
Richard A. Monty

Iceland Postal Stationery 1879-1939
Martin M. Tannenbaum

Bronze
Forbidden Fruit: FDCs of Revolutionary Cuba
Ken Lawrence

Certificate
The Cachets of C. S. Anderson
Andrew Boyajian
 

Single Frame
Gold
1909 Lincoln Commemorative Issues
Eliot A. Landau
also
Curtis Patterson Award

Vermeil
First Day Covers of the 3-Cent Lincoln Fourth Bureau Issues
Eliot A. Landau

Trinidad Red Cross Label that Became a Stamp
Reuben A. Ramkissoon
also
Foreign FDC Award

Silver Bronze
William T. Raley Cachet Varieties of 1938 Presidential Issue
Elliott Idoff

Twice Honored
Randall Sherman
also
American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Creativity Award

Certificate
FDCs of Lincoln and Sun Yat-Sen Issue of 1942
David You Lu