Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 15:28:54 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Disclave 1953 and beyond
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>> Jean Pcpart alias Harold Lynch

> No relation to me.  He is credited with coming up with the idea for
> the Hugo Award,

Thanks.  No relation to me, either, that I know of.  Any idea what
"Jean Pcpart" is supposed to be?  That's the best I can do with his
writing.

> though he apparently did not have any involvement in the manufacture
> of the first Hugos.

That was done by Peggy Rae's father, right?

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

> Phyllis King married Bill Berg, and was far better known throughout
> WSFA's history as Phyllis Berg.

Thanks.

> Of those named, I've met ... Karen J.M. Kruse (whom I knew as Karen
> Anderson), ...

Why the past tense?  She's still alive, right?  I've met her, too.
She and I were the last ones still awake on the final night of ConJose
two years ago.  Among much else, we discussed a Russian who had
contacted both of us separately by email about someone both of us had
known long ago, whom he was writing a biography of.  And now I'm her
successor as WSFA secretary.  Small world.

I should talk her into joining this list, which is, after all, for
past as well as present WSFAns.

> I also knew Harold Lynch, who was a Philadelphia fan better known as
> Hal Lynch.

Any idea what that other "Jean Pcpart" name was?  I can't possibly be
reading it right.

> I did hear about Proxyclave; I just didn't realize it was the 3rd,
> rather than the 2nd Disclave.  From photos I have of the 1951
> Disclave (I think!), it would appear that they were all that small.

The numbers I have are 75, 23, 22, 65, 65, 40, 32, 83, and 99.  That's
1950 through 1966.  I don't have numbers for 1967 through 1973.  From
1974 through 1979, when the con stayed in the same hotel and the same
weekend, I have 284, 360, 675, 850, 1005, and 1485.  After that we
resumed wandering, and it shrank to 900.  Once we stuck to one hotel
again, it grew back to 1300.  We resumed wandering in 1992, and it
never reached four digits again.  See http://www.wsfa.org/disclist.htm