Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:25:44 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Old WSFA fanzine
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On another list Ned Brooks remarked upon a large number of fanzines in a
collection he'd acquired.  Among them, this one:

"QUANTA V.I,#1-3, Nov'48-Aug'49. The official organ of the Washington
DCclub, the WSFA, still going strong. The editor was Miles Davis. Rather
sercon. There is a poem by Dick Eney and a history of the club by
Franklin Kerkhof, who lives in Norfolk last I heard and occasionally
shows up at the area regional convention, the DisClave. Issue #2 has a
promotional gimmick whereby QUANTA readers are privileged to pay $4.50
to become Science Service Associates and get Science Newsletter. There
are two copies of #1, one with the staples on the wrong side."

Ignoring his out of date information on Disclave, I think this is
fascinating, since it documents what was probably the *first* official
WSFA fanzine, predating all WSFA JOURNALs.  I've never heard of the
zine's editor (in a WSFAn context; I assume he was not the jazz musician
also of that name).  Has anyone else?  Keith?

--Ted White