Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:31:33 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sad news: Dick Eney
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Why do I suspect that his wife knows better than Ted White how old he
was?  And why do I suspect Ted of being an insensitive git for picking this
particular time and forum to argue the point?

At 04:46 AM 12/25/2006, you 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.  It was on his return that I
> > first
> > met him, but I was aware of him as a fan during most of the period
> > he
> > was in Japan,  He had joined WSFA before being posted overseas, but
> > I
> > don't have access to the membership records that would tell me when
> > that
> > was.
> >
> > --Ted White
> >
>
>It does seem hard to believe that Dick Eney was 15 or 16 years old while
>in the Army, but look at this:
>
>An article, signed by R. Eney in Oct. 1956, mentions him being in Japan,
>in the Army, in 1953 and 1954:
>
>http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy2-40.html
>
>http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy2-40.jpeg
>
>He would have just turned 19 in Oct. 1956, if he was born in Sept. 1937,
>hence he would have been 15 or 16 in 1953.
>
>Also, look at this photo, which shows Dick Eney at the 1958 Disclave (he
>would have been 21 years old):
>
>http://fanac.org/Other_Cons/Disclave/d58-001.jpeg
>
>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.
>
>Ron Kean

Candy
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