Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:14:43 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Ron Bennett, online, sort of... was Re: Former WSFANs get a Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> rw_lynch at yahoo.com 9/6/2006 6:56:29 PM >>>
>--- 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.

And this I just saw: http://trufen.net/article.pl?sid=06/09/17/019206

Fascinating historical reading.

mjw