Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:07:32 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Former WSFANs get a Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> eva.whitley at gmail.com 9/8/2006 11:42:05 PM >>>
>Mike B. wrote:
>> At 9/7/2006 05:18 PM, Barry L. Newton wrote:
>>
>>>Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>>>It just occured to me.... how many WSFAns know who Bob
>Pavlat was?
>>>
>>>Me. . .of course.  Went to his Arlington cemetary funeral.  But that

>was
>>>1983.  Quite a while back.
>>>
>>>So who's still here who was here then?   Me, Judy Newton, Mike
>>>Walsh,  Alexis, Ted White.  Walter Miles (I think).  Tom Schaad,
>not that
>>>he shows up anymore.  Dan Joy.  Rebecca Prather.  Alan
>>>Huff.  Erica?  Elspeth?  No great number.  There are quite a few
>who are
>>>still alive, but moved to distant parts.  Or just gafiated localy.
>>>
>>>Barry
>>
>> Me I think.  I moved to the area in 1980 and I think I was attending

>WSFA
>> meetings by then.  I don't remember meeting Bob though.
>>
>> -- Mike B.
>
>Well, I remember him. I don't know whether I'm considered gafiated
>or not.
>
>The last time I talked to him, I was thanking him for putting the
>Constellation religious services in the Mecken Room.

Ah, the Bard of Baltimore...

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
"Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves
were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in
Hell."

More:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#Religion.2C_theology.2C_and_God

mjw