Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 01:56:15 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Jack L. Chalker" <jchalker at miragepress.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA, deep into the past
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

    Ah, they reason I don't get into these things....
    According to Joe Mayhew, I was a member when he made his first meeting.
Don was already in, but not by a lot.
     I've checked my old stuff, though, and Ted is right on one thing--I
made my first meeting in September 1959, not 1958, so I can't go back any
farther than that. However, Ted's assertion that it met on Sundays into the
1960s is dead wrong. Dick Eney picked me up at the bus station for that one
and we went out to Miss Cullen's house. It was Friday nights, and I never
was at a WSFA meeting other than on a Friday evening nor do I recall
anybody mentioning it.
      Ted does not mention if his final meetings were at Miss Cullen's. If
so, they would have had to have been on a Friday, since Sunday afternoons
were when the railroad society met at her place (she was a retired exec of
the Atcheson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. Never knew what she did, but
since that railroad never made it east I assumed she did lobbying or
somesuch for them). I also never was able to find out the story of how
somebody could be a railroad exec, host a RR society, and also be involved
in SF. Kind of explains George Scithers, though, who was President when I
arrived. She was an interesting woman, though, and a wonderful
conversationalist.
       I would suggest that determining when the club switched from Sunday
to Friday would be best answered by Dick Eney, who's still very much
around, or, if you wanted a quick memory type thing, by John Sapienza, who
is the only person I can think of who was a member then who is still a
member now.