Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:53:43 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sad news: Dick Eney
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, ronkean at juno.com wrote:

>
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:28:07 -0500 Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net> writes:
>
> > That would have made him 14 or 15 or 16 when he joined the Army in
>> the early '50s and was posted in Japan.  I just can't believe that.  I
>> believe that when he returned to the DC area circa 1956 -- the year I
>> was 18, and I was born in February, 1938 -- he was in his early
>> mid-20s.  He certainly was older than 19.  At that point he'd served a
>> three or four-year stint in the Army.

This is interesting and helpful.

<snips>
> On the other hand, these references state he was born in 1932:
>
> http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/authorsE.html#En
> http://users.ev1.net/%5C~homeville/fictionmag/s545.htm
> http://users.ev1.net/%5C~homeville/fictionmag/q42.htm
> http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/s558.htm#TOP
> http://www.philsp.com/homeville/anth/q6.htm
> http://www.philsp.com/homeville/anth/s60.htm#A2603
>
> If his passport says 1937, that would weigh heavily for 1937 being
> correct, the passport being an official document.

That's really weird.  Because it does say 1937... I wonder if there
was a typo and he decided to go with it.

I've just checked with one of his brothers, and he agrees
with the 1932 date.  It's his brother who was born in 1932.

Thank you all.

=Tamar