Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:56:29 -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>

--- Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote:

> Michael Walsh wrote:
>
> > > rw_lynch at yahoo.com 8/31/2006 12:50:57 AM >>>
> >
> > > I believe that the mos deserving fan not yet honored
> with a
> > > Worldcon FGoH is Ron Bennett.
> >
> >  Googling gives not a whole lot of info... I've heard
> of Bennent,
> >  primarily via Mimosa, but more details would be
> interesting.
>
> He became a fan in the mid-'50s, in the UK.  Won TAFF in
> 1958, which is
> how I met him.  He rode back to the east coast from the
> Worldcon in Los
> Angeles in Bob Pavlat's car (just to tie this a bit
> closer to WSFA),
> with Sylvia Dees and me.  (A couple months later Sylvia
> and I got
> married.)  Put out a newszine called SKYRACK at one
> point.  Hasn't been
> very active in recent times -- but he *was* published in
> the Lynches'
> MIMOSA.
>

SKYRACK was the focal point British newszine for much of
its existence during the 1960s.
http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m22/bennett.htm

Before that he was also publisher of one of the better
British general interest fanzines of the 1950s, PLOY.
http://www.jophan.org/mimosa/m21/bennett.htm

He is an excellent fanwriter, and it was our pleasure to
publish articles by him in MIMOSA.

Rich Lynch
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MIMOSA web site: http://jophan.org/mimosa/
1960s Fan History Site: http://jophan.org/1960s/
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