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April 2007: NYSUT (in New York State) represents 575,000 teachers, school-related professionals, academic and professional faculty in higher education, professionals in education and health care and retirees. NYSUT has just released an article about the School Bus Driver Stamp!   Click here to read their article.

March 12, 2006: The Boston Globe has an article about another stamp project.  However, in their article they make a reference to our school-bus-driver-stamp project!  Here is a quote from the article: "Suggestions about who and what should be honored vary wildly, from the obvious to the niche, to the just plain weird. As of late there's been a big letter-writing campaign to honor school bus drivers and public safety professionals, said Dave Failor, executive director of stamp services for the Postal Service."  Please click here to read the entire article.

December 2005: The St. Paul (Minnesota) Public Schools has a nice article on their transportation web site about the school bus driver stamp.

September 2005: The United Transportation Union has asked all of its members to support the school bus driver stamp.  Please click here to read the article.  (Opens as a pdf file.)

August 1, 2005: NewsChannel5 in Nashville, Tennessee, has a nice article on their web site entitled "Campaign Underway To Honor School Bus Drivers With Stamp."  Thank you!

July 22, 2005:  Each person who writes a letter to the USPS should receive a post card like this one.  Please click on the image to enlarge it.

 

April 25, 2005: Larry Riggsbee, Executive Secretary of the Tennessee Association of Pupil Transportation, sent a letter from TAPT to United States Senator Bill Frist.  Larry asked Dr. Frist to send a letter or make a phone call to John ("Jack") E. Potter, Postmaster General of the United States, expressing Dr. Frist's endorsement of a stamp honoring school bus drivers.   You may click here to read the letter (Opens as an Adobe pdf file 850 K).

Even though the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee makes the decision on which stamps get recommended, it was felt that a letter from the Senate Majority Leader (who happens to be from Tennessee) to the Postmaster General would carry a certain amount of influence!

April 23, 2005: The California Association of School Transportation Officials (CASTO) published a very nice article on their web site www.castoways.org.  We have reproduced the article below and would like to thank CASTO for their efforts!



TN LAUNCHES DRIVER RECOGNITION CAMPAIGN IN WAKE OF SHOOTING TRAGEDY

The Tennessee Association for Pupil Transportation (TAPT) has begun a campaign to use the attention that has been focused on school bus driver Joyce Gregory, who was shot and killed on March 2, 2005 in Cumberland City, TN, as a catalyst for a project to recognize our nation's school bus drivers.  TAPT has enlisted the help of NAPT to seek support from all pupil transportation employees and all state and national educational service organizations to request that the United States Postal Service (USPS) create and issue a postage stamp dedicated to the nation's school bus drivers.

"School bus drivers play a vital and often unappreciated role in our educational system and in the lives of our children," said TAPT Executive Secretary Larry Riggsbee.  "Even though the stamp will not honor Joyce Gregory specifically, Joyce's death serves as the inspiration for our request to the USPS.

"All you need to do is write a letter to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC), which recommends which stamps should be printed, requesting they issue a stamp to honor school bus drivers," said Riggsbee.  "Ask your friends, relatives and colleagues to also write letters.  The more letters CSAC receives, the better the chance we have to get our stamp!"

TAPT has created a new web site - www.schoolbusdriverstamp.com - that contains additional information - including sample letters - about the project.  A link to the site is also available on the NAPT web site.  NAPT and TAPT are planning to distribute information via the national media as well.

"TAPT asked us if we would be willing to help them with this project but the fact of the matter is we are in awe of their commitment and focus," said Kalmes.  "We are proud to work with them and we will do whatever we can to support them."

In related news, NAPT has donated money to a memorial fund that was established to help Gregory's children.

"Members of the school transportation community have been touched by this unprecedented incident," said NAPT President Steve Kalmes.  "Our contribution is just a small way for us to let her family, especially her children, know that we care about them."

Kalmes encouraged all NAPT members - individuals, business partners and state associations - to consider making a contribution "In Memory of Joyce Gregory" to:

AmSouth Bank
Attn:  Sherry Garner
PO Box 432
Dover, TN  37058
Account # 0052-2288-00

April 7, 2005: The News & Advance of Lynchburg, Virginia has written an article about our stamp project.  You may read the article here.

April 6, 2005: Larry Riggsbee (Executive Director of TAPT) has received a letter from the USPS acknowledging his request for a stamp to honor school bus drivers.  You may read the letter here (opens as an Adobe pdf file).

March 17, 2005: School Bus Fleet has an article on our project.

March 11, 2005: The NAPT Dispatch issued today announces the project.  Click here to read the article.  (Opens as a pdf file.)

March 11, 2005: School Transportation News Online published an article about our stamp project.  Thank you!  You may read the article here.

March 11. 2005:  The National Association of Pupil Transportation has placed a link to this web site from their home page: http://www.napt.org.  Thank you!

 

March 10, 2005:  Larry Riggsbee, Executive Secretary of the Tennessee Association of Pupil Transportation, mails the first letter suggesting a stamp to honor school bus drivers to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C.

March 10, 2005:  TAPT has received positive feedback from the National Association of Pupil Transportation (NAPT).  Therefore, we went ahead and published the web site as www.SchoolBusDriverStamp.com.  TAPT and NAPT will start promoting the idea of a school bus driver stamp to the school-bus industry and the media either tomorrow or Monday.

March 9, 2005: The web site is ready for an initial review.

March 8, 2005: NMT Web Designs, LLC, of Portland, Tennessee, offered to create, sponsor and maintain a web site dedicated to the project.  This is done as a community service at no cost.

March 8, 2005: The Board of Directors of the Tennessee Association of Pupil Transportation met to discuss the best ways to use the positive national publicity as a catalyst for a project to recognize our nation’s school bus drivers and to remember Joyce Gregory.  Joyce is the Tennessee school bus driver who was murdered on her morning bus run. After much discussion the group chose to proceed with the school-bus-driver-stamp idea. The Board agreed to submit the idea for review and to ask for input and guidance from the National Association of Pupil Transportation, and other organizations.