From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Noreen Kane Falasca Shaw (? - 2005)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:10:58 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:41 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Noreen Kane Falasca Shaw (? - 2005)

> "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."

Both Noreen and her husband Larry were good friends of mine for a great
many years.  And that Worldcon she co-chaired with her first husband, Nick
Falasca?  That was my very first convention.  There were 380 people in
attendance, making it easy for me to meet Larry Shaw there.  He showed me
an unbound copy of the first issue of INFINITY, just back from the printer.

I see you're quoting me from my interview on Trufen.net.  I'll soon be
doing a column for that site, "Ask Dr. Fandom."

--Ted White