Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:39:22 -0400 From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Former WSFANs get a Worldcon Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> 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. --Ted White