Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:43:54 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Blast from the past Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> >For reasons not relevant here, I was looking in the xerox paper box = marked >Archives 2 in my storage closet (yes, there is something in there besides >fabric) and came across some old WSFA Journals, under the old address = book >and the cat show ribbons (10th Best Kitten, wow!). > >Submitted for your approval: some excerpts from the March-June 1985 WSFA >Journal (Beverly Brandt, editor): > >Brian Lewis announced that Hollywood is making a movie based on Barry >Longyear's novel "Enemy Mine." > >Alan Huff had leftover DisCon II program books to give away. > >At the March 3rd Friday meeting (at the Olivers'), the treasury was = reported >at $5767.36. > >The trustees' slate for the upcoming election was: >President: Alan Huff >V.P.: Michael Walsh >Secretary: Ginny McNitt >Treasurer: Bob Oliver (incumbent) >Trustees: Cat Slusser, Judy Newton, and Laura Jones > >An obituary of Ted Sturgeon was included, written by Somtow Sucharictul. > >Geoffrey Gould reviewed the movies "Mask," "The Company of Wolves," and >"Ladyhawke." He also provided information on how to contact the appropriat= e >people to protest the cancellation of "Dr. Who." > >NASFIC hotel information listed room rates from $42-125, with most in the >neighborhood of $70. > >If you recognize all the names given above, you are an official WSFA = Geezer. >Personally, I have no idea who Geoffrey Gould is/was I draw blank also. Googling reveals no fannish Geoffrey Gould (there is a = Geoffrey Gould somehow affiliated with Badger films . . .) Michael Walsh - of the East >Erica (not North) >the perpetual nongeezer >