From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes of the November 5th meeting are online
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:42:50 -0500
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: Friday, November 12, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes of the November 5th meeting are online

[...]
>
> History shows that we can recover from such doldrums.  One Disclave
> had just 22 (!) members, none of whom were pros.  A few years later,
> Disclaves had over 1400 people.  (For sufficiently large values of
> "a few years".)

Which Disclave was that?  I believe I've attended all but the first two
(early '50s, one-day affairs), and while I can recall several which were
small enough to fit the entire membership in one room party (and did), all
of them had at least one pro in attendance, whether it was Robert
Silverberg, Larry Shaw or A. J. Budrys.

--Ted White