Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:12:33 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Miles Davis [WSFA] Re: Old WSFA fanzine
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 8/8/2009 3:04 PM >>>
>The only mentions of WSFA's Miles Davis I can find are:
>
>* WSFA's archives contain a Saturday, August 7, 1948 letter to Miles
>  Davis by secretary Roy W. Loan Jr. re Quanta newsletter.  (Exactly
>  61 years before your query.)  I believe Steve Smith currently
>  possesses these archives.
>
>* Michael Walsh mentioned him in a post to this list on Friday, June 18,
>  2004.  The post is at http://KeithLynch.net/wsfa/list/04/6/08180129.htm=

>
>He was never an officer of the club.  Nor was he one of the founders.
>Nor did the club ever meet at his home.
>
>The jazz musician of that name was black.  Since in 1953 the club
>voted not to admit a prospective black member because of his race,
>the Miles Davis in WSFA in 1948 must have been white.

There's a Miles Davis listed as a member of Cinvention with the address: =

1422 R.I. Ave, NW, Washington, DC

http://fanac.org/fanzines/Cinvention/Cinvention1r4-08.jpeg

Same name & address shows up here: http://tinyurl.com/q9z392 (it's a =
really really long url).

mjw