Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:57:52 -0500
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Datclave
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> I look forward to attending Ravencon III in 2036.
>>
>
> D'oh!  I of course meant Datclave III.
>
> So what was the official final attendance number for Datclave II?  I
> can think of 39 (I remembered two more since yesterday).  If nobody
> objects, I will post all 39 names here, and others can say who, if
> anyone, I forgot.  The final debugged list will be useful to refer
> to during Datclave III.
>
> Datclave I wasn't WSFA's only previous relaxacon.  February relaxacons
> were kept going for several years:
>
> Datclave                  1980 Kent Bloom, Crystal City
> Datclone                  1981 Jack/Eva, Sheraton in Gettysburg
> Capicon 60                1982 HoJo near Baltimore
> D'Udderclave              1983 Jul Owings
> Bobclave/George The Party 1984 York Valley Inn, York PA
> No-Name-Con               1985 Lee Smoire, HoJo near Baltimore
>
> "Capicon 60" was the name of a proposed 1960 Worldcon.  Since
> stationery was left over, the name was recycled for the relaxacon
> 22 years later.  And 22 years after *that*, I put directions to
> the con online.
>
> There could have been a Datclave 0 in 1952, but since meetings were
> then held on Sundays, fifth Fridays had no significance.
>
> There was a fifth Sunday in February in 1948.  I no longer have access
> to the archives to know whether the club did anything special that day.
>
If memory serves, Jane Wagner ran DeUtterClave in northern VA.  I didn't
remember it going back to Catonsville. --Eva