From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Proxyclave -- WSFA's low point
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:49:14 -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 9:06 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Proxyclave -- WSFA's low point

> Ted White wrote:
> > Keith Lynch wrote:
> >> 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), ...
>
> 1953.  Also known as "Proxyclave".  I have the sign-in sheet.  You're
> not on it (I think you joined the club about a year and a half later),
> nor were any other current WSFAns.  Dick Eney was there by proxy.
>
> One of the proxy attendees was "Adlai Stevenson".  I assume someone
> wrote that in as a prank.  (He was the losing presidential candidate
> the previous year.)
>
> I'll list who was there, directly and by proxy, if anyone is interested.

That was the second Disclave, wasn't it?  A one-afternoon event, after
which Disclave went dormant until 1958.

--Ted White