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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- Stamp News Release #94-041
- NEW STAMP SCORES A "10" ON THE APGAR
SCALE
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- WASHINGTON, DC (AUGUST 15, 1994)
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- A 20-cent definitive stamp honoring
Dr.Viriginia Apgar will be issued by the Postal Service on October
24, 1994. A first day of issue ceremony for the new stamp will be
held at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting in
Dallas on October 24. Millions of babies around the world have
already been blessed with Dr.Apgar's own "stamp of approval." In
1953, she published the Apgar score, a simple assessment method
that allows doctors and nurses in the delivery room to make an
immediate evaluation of a newborn baby's general condition, aiding
identification of those infants who need immediate medical
attention. Dr. Apgar was born on June 7, 1909 in Westfield, New
Jersey. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929 and went
on to Columbia for her medical degree, and was the first women
selected for a full professorship at Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons. She aspired to be a surgeon, and then
moved into the then relatively new field of anesthesiology,
placing special emphasis on the effects of obsteric anesthesia on
newborn babies. Dr. Apgar continued her contributions to medicine
by serving the National Foundation-March of Dimes, where she
directed programs of research in the causes, prevention and
treatment of birth defects. The Perinatal Sectiion of the American
Academy of Pediatrics named its annual award to her. The Apgar
Award is given annually to the person who has done the most to
further the cause to care of newborn babies and their mothers. In
addition to her medical achievements, Dr. Apgar was known for her
sense of humor and empathy for humanity. Some of her other
interests included chamber music and stamp collecting. As a
prelude to the stamp dedication ceremony, a group of
physicians/musicians called the Apgar String Quartest will perform
some of Dr. Apgar's favorite selections on instruments she crafted
herself.
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- Dr. Apgar died on August 7, 1974.
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- Issue: Virginia Apgar 20-cent Regular
(Definitive) Stamp
- Format: Pane of 100
- Issue Date & City: October 24, 1994,
Dallas, Texas
- Series: Great Americans
- Designer: Robert Anderson
- Designer City & State: Lexington,
Mass.
- Previous Designs: Sitting Bull (1989), Red
Cloud (1987),
- John Harvard (1986)
- Typographer: Richard Sheaff, Norwood,
Mass.
- Art Director: Richard Sheaff, Norwood,
Mass.
- Engraver: Martin Mork, Banknote Corporation of
America
- Modeler: Ron Centra, Banknote Corporation of
America
- Project Manager: Joseph Brockert, U.S. Postal
Service
- Printer: Banknote Corporation of
America
- Printing Process: Intaglio
- Press Type: Sheet fed intaglio
- Paper Type: Prephosphored
- Printed At: Banknote Corporation of America,
Suffern, N.Y.
- Processed At: Ivex
- Color: Brown
- Image Area: 0.71 X 0.82 inches, 18.02 X 20.81
mm
- Overall Size: 0.84 X 0.99 inches, 21.31 X
25.12 mm
- Plate Numbers: "B" followed by one single
digit
- Plate Size: 4 positions, 400
subjects
- Marginal Markings: USPS 1993, plate position
diagram, price
- Catalog Item Numbers: #1018
- First Day Cover #F1018 ( pair)
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