From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Past WSFA Officers
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 13:51:33 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 1:04 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Past WSFA Officers

> 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.

Karen Kruse subsequently married Poul Anderson and is now known as Karen
Anderson.    Either Phil Bridges or Dot Cole was secretary when I joined
(September, 1954); meetings were held at Dot's, in Arlington near Rosslyn.

--Ted White