Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:41:22 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Noreen Kane Falasca Shaw (? - 2005)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

"Noreen Shaw, widow of SF editor Larry Shaw, co-chair of the 1955 World
SF Convention, and co-editor with Larry of 1962 Hugo-nominated fanzine
Axe, has died"

www.locusmag.com for more details, including a link to Harlan Ellison's
comments.

In the world of connections, she was one of the founders, along with
Ted White & others, of the Fanoclasts; Google Fanoclasts for more
details, including Ted's description of founding of the club
(http://trufen.net/fandom/04/12/06/1325224.shtml) with this delightful
comment:

"Since the '30s, NYC fandom had a bad reputation with the rest of
fandom. Put three NYC fans together and you not only had a fanclub, you
would shortly thereafter have a schism and *two* fanclubs."

mjw