Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:58:40 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA History web page revamped
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Ted White wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
> >
> > * What was the Transportation Building?  Was it part of the federal
> >   government?  Part of the DC government?  Which agency?  How did WSFA
> >   get use of it?  Employees were free to bring any number of guests to
> >   their workplace after hours?  Why did WSFA stop meeting there?
>
> Someone in WSFA worked there.  Maybe Frank Kerkhof.   Frank had moved to
> somewhere in downstate Virginia before I joined, but I met him when he came
> up for a Nuclear Fizz Party in the fall of 1954.

The Transportation Building was the offices of the railway association  --
name, I believe, the National Transportation Association -- which was a
lobbying group and not a part of the government.  They
used it for minor clerical stuff as well as maintaining a major (for the
subject) library.  Frank Kerkhof and Elizabeth O. Cullen were the WSFA
members who worked there; Frank had also arranged for WSFA members to get
after-hours use of the mimeographs and several issues of QUANTA were run
off that way.  After Frank moved and Mrs. Cullen retired we met at her
home out in the Washington suburbs, on South Beach Drive.  Ted was active
by that time and probably remembers the place.

-- Dick Eney