Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:35:26 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sad news: Dick Eney
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Cathy Green wrote:

> > In 1954 he was out of the country.  But he was a member prior to
> > that. Exactly when is the question.  But it's not an important
> > question and I gather Barry would like to see it all dropped,
> > although I'm not sure why.
> >
> > --Ted White
>
>  Probably because it is in extremely poor taste to argue with the
>  newly-widowed spouse over how old her just deceased husband was.

You may be right, and if you are, I apologize to Tamar.  But she seems
interested to resolving the matter, to judge from her responses.  To
that end I pass along the following:

"Your mention of the 1984 Worldcon program book sent me to
my files to check it out.    It is stated in it that he
was born in September *1932*.  I have no idea how his
passport says 1937, but think it might have been a case of
mistaking a '2' for a '7,' which I've noticed with some
people's handwriting is easy to do.  It could have been
that simple an error, but perhaps when Eney noticed it he
*liked* it and let it stand."

Dick Eney was the Fan Guest of Honor at the 1984 (Los Angeles) Worldcon
and was of course written up in the convention's Program Book, which
apparently gave the 1932 date of birth.  One assumes a) that this is the
correct date, because b) it was probably supplied by Dick, and if not
must have been vetted by him.

--Ted White