From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Disclave 1953 and beyond
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 18:25:15 -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: Sunday, November 21, 2004 3:28 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Disclave 1953 and beyond

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>
> "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.

Past tense because I'm referring to events in the '50s.  I met Karen in
early 1958, when she returned to D.C. to show off her baby daughter
(Astrid) to her mother, Astrid's grandmother.  During her spare time she
hung out with me, and we had a great fannish time.  I had just turned 20,
and Karen struck me then as a Glamorous Older Woman, although I doubt she
was actually more than five years older than I.

I saw her again, later that year, in Los Angeles at the Worldcon.   In a
room full of people she was very different in her behavior, which took me
aback at the time.   I was in those days terribly naive.   (I wasn't too
preoccupied with the difference in Karen's behavior, however, since that
was also where I met Sylvia Dees, whom I married three months later.)

> 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.

Not a clue.  Probably a joke of some sort.

--Ted White