Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:04:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Past WSFA Officers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

As I mentioned at the meeting, I have updated
http://www.wsfa.org/officersbyname.htm and
http://www.wsfa.org/officersbydate.htm using the archival material I
now have custody of as soon-to-be-secretary.  (My term starts with our
next meeting.)  Those pages used to list WSFA officers back to 1978.
Now they list WSFA officers back to 1947, the beginning of WSFA.
Unfortunately there are still some holes in it.  Perhaps I can fill
them in using the material I haven't looked at yet.  Please report
any errors, broken links, holes that you can fill in, etc.

Eleven days ago I wrote:

> Don Miller wasn't WSFA's first secretary after all.  Someone named
> Roy W. Loan, Jr. was.

On closer inspection, this turns out to be doubly wrong.  Though Don
Miller was WSFA Journal editor for a decade, he was apparently never
WSFA's secretary.  The two jobs used to be distinct.  And Mr. Loan was
WSFA's *second* secretary, not first.

Here's what I believe to be the complete list of WSFA secretaries, as
best as I could reconstruct it from old WSFA Journals, Son of WSFA
Journals, handwritten meeting minutes, and other sources:  Franklin
Kerkhof, Roy W. Loan Jr., Ralph Moritz, Francis Vastola, Karen Kruse,
Lee Jacobs, Philip N. Bridges, Dot Cole, Elizabeth O. Cullen, Gay
Haldeman, Alice Haldeman, Jan Derry, Betty Berg, Sharon Harris,
Joe Mayhew, Marianne Petrino-Schaad, Jane Wagner, Beverly Brandt,
Ginny McNitt, Erica Ginter, Joe Mayhew, Mary Morman, Rachel Russell,
Lee Strong, Joe Mayhew, Sam Lubell, Keith Lynch.

However, twenty years ago Chick Derry wrote that Bill Berg had held
every office, and I don't see his name there, so perhaps he belongs in
one or more of the holes.

Fully half the current members don't remember any secretary before
Sam Lubell.
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