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July 5, 2013 • Milwaukee Post • 3 Online petition drive aims to have stamp by 2015 By BRIAN HUBER Conley News Service WAUKESHA – A first-class musician and inventor deserves to have a firstclass U.S. postage stamp in his honor, a friend of Les Paul's said last month. Sue Baker, program director for the Les Paul Foundation who befriended the music and recording legend during her days at the Waukesha County Museum, said it was her idea to propose a stamp to honor Paul by June 9, 2015, the 100th anniversary of his birth in Waukesha. "Why wouldn't you put Les Paul's image on a stamp for his 100th birthday?" Baker said. An online petition has been launched to get the U.S. Postal Service to approve a Paul stamp. Baker said she submitted the paperwork for a stamp in 2011. Baker wrote to AREA BRIEFS U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, whose response Baker read in part: "You raise some interesting and insightful points regarding the reasons why you believe the legacy of Les Paul should be celebrated with a commemorative stamp." "I am very hopeful that it will happen," Baker said. "But it was actually ... Paul Ryan who had written back to me and he was the one who said realize there are like 50,000 requests a year. "That's when I thought, 'Well, you know there's a lot of fans out there, so let's ask the fans to help out with this.'" A call to a USPS spokesman in Washington, D.C., seeking comment was not returned last month. But there is precedent for stamps featuring entertainment figures. The likes of several Muppets and Disney characters have graced the nation's mail. An Elvis Presley stamp was issued in 1993. A stamp bearing the likeness of Bing Crosby, who recorded with Les Paul, was issued a year later. The post office this year launched a Music Icons series, releasing a stamp featuring Tejano music star Lydia Mendoza in May and another featuring 233051015 Foundation pushing for Les Paul postal stamp Potter's Johnny Cash earlier this month. The USPS will issue a Ray Charles Forever stamp this fall, its website said, adding the series will continue for the next several years with inductees being announced at a later date. Baker said she believed there was national support for a Les Paul stamp. "I think as much as there has been for other internationally known musicians," she said. "Les is more than a musician. He was an inventor and has done way beyond the scope of many musicians. As an inventor and a musician, he deserves a stamp, but I admit to being prejudiced." Baker said getting a Les Paul stamp approved by the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2015 would be a "good start" on events celebrating that centennial. "There'll be a lot happening, so that will be very fun," she said. 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