Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:44:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Old WSFA Journals
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Lee Strong wrote:

> First, I note that Sam has already entered WSFA history as the
> Secretary that has served the longest continuous term in that
> office,

Has he served longer than Don Miller?  I don't know when Don started
or stopped, or whether his secretaryship was continuous.  If Sam
doesn't yet hold the record, he's probably getting close.  It would be
nice to find these numbers, so we can celebrate when he does set the
record, if he hasn't done so already.

"Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

> "No idea how"?  He typed stencils.  Lots of them.  Don had a
> nose-to-the-grindstone approach to fanac: grim and humorless and
> hardworking.  His WSFA JOURNALs reflected that.  Some were deadly
> dull.  But Doll Gilliland's rather sloppy, friendly fanzine review
> column made up for a lot.

What I meant was, did he write most of the material himself?  If not,
who did?  Other WSFA members?  How was he so much more successful at
getting them to write for the Journal than any later secretary was?

Speaking of fanzine reviews, I miss yours.  Why did you stop?

Judith Newton <jnewton at nist.gov> wrote:

> No one so far, I think, has mentioned "Son of the WSFA Journal
> (SotWJ),"

Not recently, but it was mentioned in this list last August.  And
in August four years ago, in the WSFA Journal, I wrote:

  Ideally, I hope to eventually place every WSFA publication on our
  web page.  Every WSFA Journal.  Every Son of WSFA Journal.  Every
  Disclave program book, souvenir book, flyer, and newsletter.  A list
  of who the officers and trustees were every year since WSFA began.
  A list of when and where every WSFA meeting was held since WSFA
  began.  The current and past bylaws.  A list of everything WSFA
  press has ever published.

> which as I recall was published as a reaction to the long gap
> between issues of Don Miller's WSFA Journal.

If there were about a hundred issues of the WSFA Journal in about a
decade, that would have been close to one issue a month.  Of course
there may have been longer gaps between the later and larger issues.

A Google search shows that UMBC has many issues of the first series
WSFA Journal, from "No. 2 April 1965" to "#81 February 1973", and many
issues of the Son of WSFA Journal, from "No. 2 October 1969" to "No.
157 & 158 September 1974".  The present second series WSFA Journal
began in August 1978.  They have some of those, too, though not any
of the four issues I am missing, nor anything newer than 1991.
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