Philately

David M. Frye collects items that inspire him to research and write stories about mail services and the people who send, handle, and receive letters and parcels. His writings have appeared in The Airpost Journal, Auxiliary Markings, B.E.A.—The Bulletin of the East Africa Study Circle, Forerunners, The Journal of the Rhodesian Study Circle, LPS Journal: The Journal of the Liberian Philatelic Society, The Miasma Philatelist, The Military Postal History Society Bulletin, Postage Due Mail Study Group Journal, Postal History Journal, The Postal Label Bulletin, Scribblings, The Stamp Forum Newsletter, The United States Specialist, Vatican Notes, and The Vermont Philatelist. A past member of the Board of Directors of the Postal History Society, he lives in Franklin, Massachusetts, and works in nearby Framingham as a lead clerk for the U.S. Postal Service.

Theology

A native of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, David M. Frye entered the Church
through baptism in 1962 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in nearby Annville,
and confirmed his faith on Pentecost 1976 at the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After graduating
from Lebanon Valley College, Annville, in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in
physics, he earned his Master of Divinity degree at the Lutheran Theological
Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1989. Ordained that year, he served
parishes in both western and eastern Nebraska before directing communica-
tions for the Martin Luther Home Society, Lincoln, and earning his master
of arts degree in journalism in 2000 from the University of Nebraska—
Lincoln. In 2009, he made his final oblation as an oblate of Saint Benedict
and became a member of the Nebraska Chapter of oblates of Sacred Heart
Monastery, Yankton, South Dakota.
His postal history articles about mail services and the people who send,
handle, and receive letters and parcels have appeared in more than a dozen
journals, predominantly ones focusing on postal markings and methods and
on the postal history of post-colonial English-speaking countries in Africa.
He has exhibited his nature photography at various venues in and around
Lincoln, Nebraska. He is the author of two books: Bridging Physics and
Communications: Experimental Detection and Analysis of Web Site Users’
Paths in an Environment of Free Choice, 2000, and Contact Sheet: Poems,
2012.
He and Anne, his wife, live in Franklin, Massachusetts. He is an oblate
of Our Lady of Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, Massachusetts, and the lead
clerk for the U.S. Postal Service in Framingham. In addition, he serves as a
volunteer digital layout editor for The Krapf Project, an international effort
to serve the Church by providing ministerial enrichment and resources for
rural pastors in East Africa.