From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Could be worse timing....
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:39:29 -0500
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:04 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Could be worse timing....

> "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > I don't get why the timing is so bad here.  Let's see...we could
> > have contacted her the day she died...or months after.
>
> Because it was such a narrow miss after so many decades.  A few weeks
> earlier, and she would have known we hadn't forgotten her.  And she
> might have been able to cast new light on WSFA's beginnings.
>
> I wonder if she ever looked at WSFA's website, and saw where Joe
> Mayhew wrote ten years ago that Chick Derry had been the last of
> WSFA's founding members.  And I wonder how Joe made that mistake.

That's easy.  He joined WSFA circa 1959.  He'd never heard of this woman.
Hell, *I* never heard of her either, and I joined in 1954.

--Ted White