Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:50:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Former WSFANs get a Worldcon
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> > twhite8 at cox.net 8/30/2006 12:07:44 PM >>>
> >Michael Walsh wrote:
> >
> >>  By 12 votes the 2008 Worldcon goes to Denver.
> >>
> >>  Former 3rd Friday hosts Kent Bloom (Con chair) and
> Mary
> >Morman
> >>  (Secretary) along with occasional host Jack Heneghan
> are the
> >lucky
> >>  folks.  Also on the concom are Bob MacIntosh, Mike
> Nelson, and
> >>  occasional DC area fan Theresa Renner.
> >>
> >>  GoH is past Disclave and Balticon GoH Lois McMaster
> Bujold Fan
> >GoH is
> >>  the Capclave Fan GoH Tom Whitmore.
> >
> >Just out of idle curiosity, just what has Tom done in
> fandom to be
> >twice
> >honored in this fashion?  (Running book stores does not
> count as
> >fanac.)
>
> I suspect - not being on the Denver bid Committee - that
> his
> involvement in convention running played a factor.  He
> has been quite
> active behind the scenes for a few decades.  I believe he
> has had some
> fanzine activity, but regretfully I can't say exactly
> where and what and
> etc, but that said, I would not categorize him as a
> "fanzine fan", but
> rather someone who has been involved in fandom for many
> years.
>
> Are there folks with longer experience, more fanzine
> activity?  Almost
> certainly.
>

I believe that the mos deserving fan not yet honored with a
Worldcon FGoH is Ron Bennett.

Rich Lynch
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