From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA History web page revamped
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:32:06 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "dicconf" <dicconf at radix.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:58 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA History web page revamped

>
> 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
ssociation  --
> 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.

Very well, in fact.  But there were (as discussed here some months back)
several meeting places inbetween Mizz Cullen's and the Transportation
Building -- an apartment in Georgetown (but I've forgotten whose; I
attended only the last meeting held there, in September 1954), Dot Cole's
place just outside Rosslyn, and Nelson Griggs' in Wheaton.  I believe we
were still at Griggs' place when you returned from your overseas post
(1955?).

--Ted White