Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:12:45 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 4SJ Ackerman, 1916-2008
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 12/7/2008 4:06 PM >>>
>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.

Perhaps a  better phrasing might have been something like "there are  six =
known living people who attended Nycon I, the first worldcon."

mjw