From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 4SJ Ackerman, 1916-2008
Date: Sun,  7 Dec 2008 16:06:52 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Actually, how can anyone know for sure that there are only six people
left who attended the first Worldcon?  Has anyone really kept track of
all 200 of them?  Didn't any of them later just drop out of fandom?
It's not like tracking veterans, where presumably all of them are
registered with the VA so as to get benefits.

I remember what a hard time I had trying to figure out whether any of
the seven founders of WSFA were still alive, even though the founding
of WSFA was more recent.

"Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> And for real trivia, who has the record for attending ALL of a
> particular convention.

I'm sure many people have attended all 8 Capclaves.  I'm even more
sure that nobody has attended all 41 Disclaves.

There isn't any con that I've attended all of, except for one-offs.  I
missed the first Ravencon, the first Datclave, and the last Capclave.