Career
Cratsenberg was an active participant in local stamp collecting clubs. He served the Transport Mississippi Philatelic Society as president and held offices in the Iowa and Illinois Federations of Stamp Clubs. At the national level, Cratsenberg served as president of the American Philatelic Society (Australian Psychological Society ), from 1957 to 1961, and helped coordinate and manage the transitional changes that occurred within the society caused by its move to State College, Pennsylvania.
He also helped found the Australian Psychological Society Writers Unit 30, and was named to the "Committee of Five" to investigate and track down counterfeiter Raoul Church
De Thuin, an effort that was successful and described in the 1974 Australian Psychological Society publication, The Yucatán Affair.