Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 00:16:49 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What should Capclave be?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

> From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
> > Disclave lasted from 1950 through 1997.
>
> Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com> wrote:
> > Well, kind of.  There were two early Disclaves which were single-
> > afternoon affairs, in 1950 and 1951.  The *next* Disclave was held
> > in 1958, in Arlington (on Rt. 50 at the Arva) and was the first
> > "modern" Disclave, running for a whole weekend.  From that point on
> > the string was almost unbroken (no Disclave in 1964, I guess due to
> > the Worldcon the previous year) until The End.
>
> That's slightly different from the information on our web site,
> which is mostly from Joe Mayhew and from the back of various
> Disclave program books from the 80s and 90s.  See especially
> http://www.wsfa.org/disclist.htm and http://www.wsfa.org/discjm.htm.
> Please tell me of any errors you find on either page.  Thanks.
>
> Here's a summary:
>
> YEAR-MO-DAYS SITE            STATE  FEATURED GUESTS       CHAIRMAN        COUNT
>
> 1950 4 30    Wardman Park*      DC Willy Ley              Bob Briggs         75
> 1951 4 29    Statler            DC Sam Moskowitz          Bob Briggs         23
> 1952 None
> 1953 3 22    Statler            DC "Proxyclave"           Bob Briggs         22
> 1954 None
> 1955 None
> 1956 None
> 1957 None
> 1958 5 10-11 Arva Motel         VA None                   Bob Pavlat         65
> 1959 5 16-17 Diplomat Motel     DC None                   Bob Pavlat         65
> 1960 5 21-22 Diplomat Motel     DC None                   George Scithers
> 1961 5 13-14 Diplomat Motel     DC None                   George Scithers    40
> 1962 5 12-13 Diplomat Motel     DC None                   George Scithers    32
> 1963 None
> 1964 None

Okay, I wasn't sure about the 1963 Disclave and whether it had skipped one year or
two.  I *do* recall the triumphant return of the convention in 1965 vividly,
however, for a variety of reasons.   I heard rumors of the "Proxyclave," but my
understanding is that it was pretty much a bust, since the "speakers" all showed up
"in proxy" -- sending material to be *read* by local attendees -- and this did not
go over well.  In 1954 no one (including Briggs) was talking about it, although the
earlier Disclaves were remembered with fondness.

--Ted White