Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:48:58 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sad news: Dick Eney
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> twhite8 at cox.net 12/25/2006 7:35:26 PM >>>
>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.

People do ... interesting things ... with their lives.

When my mother died, it took a bit longer to get her military records
(so she could be buried at Arlingon for *her* military service) because
my father had forgotten that long, long ago she had switched her first &
middle names.  I don't think she ever went through any legal process,
she just did it.  But then, life was simplier, long ago.

mjw