Two
dedicated philatelists, Robert Ware and William Hassan, were the leaders
in the formation of the Ithaca Philatelic Society. They called a meeting
of 43 area collectors on February 17, 1932 at the YMCA.
The
society continued to hold regular meetings and in 1940, one of its
members, Ed Richardson, was elected to be the first President of the
Federation of Central New York Philatelic Societies.