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 Ken Stuckey
– For 33 years, 1965-1998, the research librarian at the Perkins School for
the Blind, Watertown, MA. USA. In 1965 he started the collection of
Blindiana stamps at Perkins. He was born in London in 1938. After doing his
military service in the British army he immigrated to the United States in
1961. He became the research librarian at Perkins in 1965. He has a B.S. in
history from Northeastern University and a Masters in Library Science from
the University of Rhode Island.
In 1997 Ken married Gunilla Stenberg, a fellow collector of stamps relating
to blindness in Stockholm, Sweden. He retired in 1998 and moved to Stockholm
where he continues to collect Blindiana stamps together with his wife.
 Gunilla
Stenberg Stuckey – Former director of the Tomteboda School, later the
Tomteboda Resource Centre for Children and Young People with Visual
Impairment (TRC) in Stockholm Sweden. She was born in Gothenburg in 1938.
After obtaining her teacher’s degree she worked as a teacher in Stockholm
for some years. She then graduated as a teacher of the blind and started
teaching blind children at Tomteboda in 1965. After working for the
government with matters concerning people with visual impairment for six
years she 1977 became the assistant director and in 1979 the director of TRC
until her retirement in 2003.
Over the past forty years they have attended a large number of international
conferences in the field of Blindness and often given presentations,
sometimes illustrated with Blindiana stamps.
During this time
they have developed a world-wide network of fellow collectors of Blindiana
stamps. These collectors are their major source of information about new
stamps, where to obtain them and details regarding the subject of the
stamps. They in turn keep in touch with these collectors by periodically
producing information sheets. In the past this has been done by mailing the
sheets out. This now is done by including sheets plus additional information
about the subjects of these stamps on this website.
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