Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:13:58 -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> > eva.whitley at gmail.com 12/25/2006 7:57:04 PM >>> >Ted White wrote: ><snipped> >> >> 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. > >I'm impressed that fen from WSFA accounted for Worldcon Fan GOH two >years running. > >I wonder how many WSFAns have been Fan GOH at Worldcon, anyway. --Eva Dick Eney - 1984 Ted White - 1985 George Scithers - 2001 Tom Whitmore - 2008 WSFAns who have or will Chair a Worldcon: 1963 - George Scithers 1967 - Ted White, co-chair with Dave van Arnam 1974 - Jay Haldeman, with lots of help from Ron Bounds, see: http://www.nesfa.org/data/LL/LongListNotes.html#1974 1983 - oh... me... 1998 - Peggy Rae Pavlat, now Sapienza 2002 - Tom Whitmore 2008 - Kent Bloom It should be noted that Tom Whitmore was a WSFAn for a year or two back in the 70s or so. mjw