Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:41:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Minutes of the November 5th meeting are online
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

"Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

> And that last of the original three Disclaves (which may have drawn
> a pro whose name Keith didn't recognize) ...

It was before my time in WSFA.  In fact, it was before I was born.
So I was relying on Joe Mayhew's "46 years of Disclaving," which
contains:

  1953 found Disclave back at the Statler on March 22nd.  They couldn't
  get any Pros to attend, so they held a "Proxyclave", that is, letters
  from writers were read to the 22 Fen who came. It is not surprising
  that there was a five year gap before they tried again.

Since 1953 was also before *his* time in WSFA, it's possible that he
was mistaken.  Here are the people on the sign-in list:

Philip N. Bridges
Robt. O. Strayhorn, Jr.
Karen J.M. Kruse
Isabel Fine
L.H. Odell
M.L. Moremen
Lee Jabocs
Franklin Kerkhof
Bob McArthur
John L. Magnus, Jr.
Irene Baron
Phyllis King
William Berg
Warren Felkel
John J. Hurley
Mercedes M. Mansfield
Jean Pcpart alias Harold Lynch
Ellen Kahn alias Joe Jolley
Peggy Jordan
Terry Felcyn
C.T. Vm. Vechter

The names were handwritten, so I've almost certainly made some errors
transcribing them.  And there are only 21 names there, not 22.

I haven't listed those who were there by proxy, which included Dick
Eney, who's on this list.

The 1953 con was definitely called both Proxyclave and "the Third
Disclave" at the time, so that probably isn't the cause of the
confusion as to whether there were two or three early Disclaves.

Each pro who was there by proxy had a specific proxy to read their
letters.  Karen Kruse, then club secretary, was Poul Anderson's proxy.
Does anyone know when she married him?  Thanks.