Bruce Whitehill is AGPC's 2008 recipient of the Bradley-Parker Award (for games).  He is the founder of the Association of Game & Puzzle Collectors.  His contribution to the field of games extends well beyond his founding of the AGPC.

Bruce has invented (and continues to invent) games for companies such as Milton Bradley, Talicor, Pressman, and Eggert Speil.  He is the author of the book American Board Games and Their Makers: 1822-1992, which has been touted as the most authoritative work on the history of American game companies.  He has also authored Americanopoly:  As Seen Through Its Games.

Bruce has brought games to the attention of the public through various forms of media, including radio, televeision, and the Internet, as well as in newspapers, magazines, books, and even in an encyclopedia.  He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and in a college textbook on marketing.

Bruce and his wife Sybille currently live in Germany.

Photos from AGPC's 2008 annual convention in Charleston, South Carolina are now available!  Convention photos

Our 2009 convention will be held in Providence, Rhode Island, in April.  Debby Krim and Mildred Spears are the convention hosts. 

This year, AGPC Mid-Atlantic Chapter's 9th Annual Event will be a gala Halloween Party  featuring costumes, party games, show-and-tell, and lots of prizes.  We'll again have an Italian buffer dinner with beer, wine, and soft dricks, both live and silent auctions, table selling of games and puzzles and, as always, a few surprises.  Dinner will start at 6 pm and the tables will be available at 5 pm for those wishing to set up for selling and trading.

The event will be held on Saturday, November 1, 2008 in the Holiday Inn Express, 2389 Bernville Road (Route 183), Reading, PA - Phone: 610-372-0700.

The November 1 date works well for those attending the nearby Allentown Toy Show, held from 9 am to 3 pm that Saturday in Allentown, and for the great Sunday in Adamstown with Renningers, et al. 

Puzzle Parley (AGPC meeting devoted to jigsaw puzzles)
November 7-9, 2008
Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge, MA

A “specialty” meeting of the American Game & Puzzle Collectors (called a “Puzzle Parley”) devoted entirely to jigsaw puzzles will be held at the Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge, MA the weekend of November 7-9, 2008. This will be the ninth jigsaw puzzle parley since 1994, which Bob Armstrong, Melinda Shebell, Pagey Elliott, Joe Seymour and others have helped organize. The meeting will be an opportunity to bring together people interested in making, collecting, displaying, discussing, buying, selling and assembling puzzles. Anyone interested in jigsaw puzzles (whether members of the AGPC or not) is invited to attend and participate. While Saturday, November 8 will be the focus of the meeting, we have scheduled events on Friday and Sunday as well. For attendees who can stay an extra day, we also recommend the Sturbridge, MA area for Old Sturbridge Village, an early 19th century New England village reincarnated, and lots of antique shops (puzzles?)